Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber
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"Unmask the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data, and manufactured facts."--Cover.Tags
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This is an invaluable look into how companies pay for the test results of their products, revealing how seemingly scientific data can simply be another form of advertising.
The subject matter was very interesting (and pretty scary), but the prose was very dry. Also, given that it was written in the late 90's, much of the information is dated. Having said that, I still found the book to be interesting and enjoyable.
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- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We have become the real experts, not because of our title or the university we attended, but because we have been threatened and we have a different way of seeing the world.
- Blurbers
- McKibben, Bill; Ehrenreich, Barbara; Rifkin, Jeremy; Hightower, Jim; Moyers, Bill; Krimsky, Sheldon
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Business, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 659.2 — Technology Management & public relations Advertising and public relations Public Relations
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- HD59.6 .U6 .R35 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Public relations. Industrial publicity
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- English, Italian
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- Paper, Ebook
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