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The Lies of Industry and the Liars Who Sell Them

Jacobs, Ron
http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/14/the-lies-of-industry-and-the-liars-who-sell-them-2/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  14/02/2020
Year Published:  2020  
Resource Type:  Article

A review of The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception, a book by David Michaels.

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After presenting his case in a general way; then highlighting various industries and the attempts at lies and manufacturing doubt from paid-off scientists in the product defense business, Michaels closes the text with a brief list of suggestions he thinks are necessary to protect the US consumer. The specific steps he suggests include the use of scientists untainted by the product industry they are evaluating, complete disclosure of who funds the tests and the institutes conducting those tests, protecting the public from entire classes of chemicals, not just individual ones, and recognizing the important role litigation can play in protecting the public’s health. Ultimately, however, Michaels acknowledges (and clearly states) that as long as short term profits are considered more important than public and planetary health, there is little chance that the poisons unnecessarily present in our lives will go away.
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