Merchants of Doubt

Purdue told doctors OxyContin was unlikely to cause addiction, then blamed ‘abusers’ internally once it clearly did.

For nearly 50 years, leaded-gasoline safety research came from one industry-funded scientist, until ice cores proved him wrong.

Exxon’s own scientists predicted global warming within a few percent of what actually happened, starting as early as 1977.

By 1962, tobacco company scientists called the cancer evidence overwhelming internally, while the industry’s own ads said otherwise.