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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming is a 2010 non-fiction book by American historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a manipulative propaganda tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling, and cults. FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information , and is a manifestation of the appeal to fear .
The terms Holocaust denial and AIDS denialism describe the denial of the facts and the reality of the subject matters, [4] and the term climate change denial describes denial of the scientific consensus that the climate change of planet Earth is a real and occurring event primarily caused in geologically recent times by human activity. [5]
Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between two or more contradictory propositions, and is uncertain about them. [ 1 ] [ better source needed ] Doubt on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief .
The episodes called Denial, Doubt, and Delay, examine how industry was researching climate change as early as the 1970s, how it attempted to cast doubt on the science, and how it influenced public perception and policy. It spans a half-century and draws on interviews with world leaders, oil industry scientists, whistleblowers, lobbyists, and ...
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[1] [page needed] A central concept in the book is "toxic uncertainty" that is about how residents doubt or even deny the harmful impact of pollution on their lives, and confusion among the dominated. This is generated by state officials who raise the issue of relocation but then suspend it; by doctors who say the illnesses are no different ...
Denial: Manipulator refuses to admit that they have done something wrong. Rationalization: An excuse made by the manipulator for inappropriate behavior. Rationalization is closely related to spin. Minimization: This is a type of denial coupled with rationalization.