Click above to listen to part 4 of Skeptic Check: Science Denial, featuring Allan Brandt, professor of history of science and medicine at Harvard University and author of “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America”, describing how the tobacco industry misused data to mislead the public about the dangers of their product.
Skeptic Check: Science Denial:
Part 1: What is Science Denialism?
Part 2: Sheila Jasanoff / Denial or Distrust?
Part 3: Michael Dahlstrom / Science and Storytelling
Part 4: Allan Brandt / Manufacturing Doubt
Part 5: David Scheer / Science and Industry
Part 6: Matthew Nisbet / Framing Denialism
Part 7: Arthur Caplan / Scientists’ Responsibility
Part 8: Nancy Tomes / Convert Outreach







