Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

There was a book called Merchants of Doubt written about the public relations and propaganda effort to raise doubt in order to create political maneuvering room for these industries.

Context

Whitehouse critiques the tactics used to undermine scientific consensus on climate change.

02/22/2010

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