re: #62 lostlakehiker

There’s a book: Doubt is their product.

Makes the case very well. Including specific names of who those same people are or were.

Another good book on that theme is Merchants of Doubt, by Namoi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway.

It identifies parallels between the climate change debate and earlier controversies over tobacco smoking, acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer. Oreskes and Conway write that in each case “keeping the controversy alive” by spreading doubt and confusion after a scientific consensus had been reached, was the basic strategy of those opposing action.

amazon.com