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Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future

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Type: Book
 
Website: http://www.prwatch.org/books/e...
 
Author: Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber
 
Publisher: Penguin
 
Date published: Sun, Dec 31, 2000
 
Keywords: public relations, propaganda, global warming, genetic engineering, front group, astroturf, third party experts, spin, deception, junk science, propaganda
 
Country: United States
 
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Trust Us We're Experts is a deeply researched look at how propagandists, spin doctors, PR flacks and lobbyists manipulate and manage public opinion and trust through the use of front groups, experts and journalists. It examines issues such as global climate change and industry-funded skeptics; junk science; genetically engineered food; the industry war on the precautionary principle, etc.

Authors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber write and work for the Center for Media and Democracy.

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