The Manufactured Doubt industry and the hacked email controversy
Posted: 10:07 AM EST on November 25, 2009
In 1954, the tobacco industry realized it had a serious problem. Thirteen scientific studies had been published over the preceding five years linking smoking to lung cancer. With the public growing increasingly alarmed about the health effects of smoking, the tobacco industry had to move quickly to protect profits and stem the tide of increasingly worrisome scientific n
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What a confusing day for the residents of Rochester, Minn.. The previous record high for the city for today was 53 degrees. Yet on this date in 1998, the low temperature was 54 degrees, which by itself would have broken the old high record. The temperature would climb to 62 degrees that day, setting the current record.
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