Trust us, we're experts! How industry manipulates sciences and gambles with your future

"In Trust Us We're the Experts journalists Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber unmask the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data, and manufactured facts. Rampton and Stauber show how corporations and public relations firms have se...

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Main Authors: Rampton, Sheldon, Stauber, John
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: New York 2001
Penguin Putnam
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19290286124910184689-Trust-us,-we-re-experts!-How-i.htm
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Summary:"In Trust Us We're the Experts journalists Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber unmask the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data, and manufactured facts. Rampton and Stauber show how corporations and public relations firms have seized upon remarkable new ways of exploiting your trust to get you to buy what they have to sell: letting you hear their pitch from a neutral third party, such as a professor or a pediatrician or a soccer mom or a watchdog group. The problem is, these third parties are usually anything but neutral. They have been handpicked, cultivated, and meticulously packaged in order to make you believe what they say. ..."
Physical Description:359 p.
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