Personal Injury Law

Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health

By Bruce Stern

In previous blog entries, I have discussed the recent exposé regarding industry’s payment of money to scientists to publish "research" that is supportive in industry’s defense of defective products.  I just finished an outstanding book entitled "Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health" by David Michaels.  Dr. Michaels is an epidemiologist and Director of the project on scientific knowledge and public policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.  He previously served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health under the Clinton administration.

Dr. Michaels illuminating book documents "the way in which product defense consultants have shaped and skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the advantage of polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products."

This book follows product after product, toxin after toxin and how the manufactures of these chemicals, drugs and products have deceived, hidden and misrepresented the known dangers of their products.  For all concerned about the public health and how industry has subverted the legal and regulatory systems, this book is a must.  You can purchase the book online here.

Full post as published by Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).