{"id":323,"date":"2011-12-11T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2011-12-11T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:09:00","slug":"doubt-is-their-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Doubt is Their Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defendingscience.org\/Doubt_is_Their_Product.cfm\">Doubt is Their Product<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Doubt  is our product,&#8221; a cigarette executive once observed, &#8220;since it is the  best means of competing with the &#8216;body of fact&#8217; that exists in the minds  of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a  controversy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this eye-opening expos\u00e9, David  Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry&#8217;s duplicitous tactics spawned a  multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health  safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly  skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific  uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the advantage of  polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products. To keep the  public confused about the hazards posed by global warming, second-hand  smoke, asbestos, lead, plastics, and many other toxic materials,  industry executives have hired unscrupulous scientists and lobbyists to  dispute scientific evidence about health risks. In doing so, they have  not only delayed action on specific hazards, but they have constructed  barriers to make it harder for lawmakers, government agencies, and  courts to respond to future threats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Just bookmarking this for future reference&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubt is Their Product: &#8220;Doubt is our product,&#8221; a cigarette executive once observed, &#8220;since it is the best means of competing with the &#8216;body of fact&#8217; that exists in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doubt is Their Product&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-right-wing-noise-machine","category-war-on-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}