Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Oreskes and Conway document the same small group of scientists who spent decades manufacturing uncertainty about tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole, and climate change — paid to produce doubt rather than knowledge. The argument is historical, the evidence is overwhelming, and the conclusion is devastating: the delay was not ignorance but strategy. Millions have died. The strategy continues.