Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes

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I finished Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. Since I had already read Oreskes’s other book, Why Trust Science?, which was one of my best reads of that year I added their most famous book to my TBR without even reading the synopsis. It was a bit of a surprise when I realized this book is about major ecological and humanitarian crises ( ozone layer depletion, secondhand smoking, acid rain, and the ongoing global warming) and how some contrarians and think tanks manipulated the media, government, and public opinion to push their views at the expense of the environment and human lives.
I had some idea about the history of cliamte change denialists, especially since I’ve read part of climate change denier Fred Singer’s book Climate Change Reconsidered but I was kind of shocked to see how the same think tanks and the same deniers keep popping up dismissing serious issues like smoking and lung cancer, carbon emission and climate catastrophe and sulfur dioxide release from industries leading to acid rain. Also how many "serious" newspapers published op-eds and reports that helped propagate the disinformation
i would recommend it to anyone interested in this topic
i have also started reading Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Philcox translation with homi k bhabha introduction) both of them are really heavy hitters but i'm reading them with supplementary materials so it's not too bad.

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