Tainted Truth The Manipulation of Fact In America

by Crossen, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780684815565
• ISBN10: 0684815567
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-25
• Publisher: Touchstone
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Summary

Sponsored studies have become America's most powerful and popular tool of persuasion.Tainted Truthshows that much of what we learn from them is false. Although the studies and surveys wear the guise of objective science, their findings almost invariably reflect their sponsors' intentions.In this important and provocative book, Cynthia Crossen reveals how the manufacturers of silicone breast implants did not disclose information regarding the dangers of the implants, how the demise of the cloth-diaper industry was influenced by questionable statistics paid for by Procter & Gamble -- the leading supplier of disposable diapers, and how even the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court was influenced by fast and biased polls.

Author Biography

Cynthia Crossen has been a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal since 1983. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son.

Table of Contents

The Study Game	p. 11
The Truth About Food	p. 39
The Numerical Lies of Advertising	p. 70
False Barometers of Opinion	p. 98
False Truth and the Future of the World	p. 129
Drugs and Money	p. 160
Research in the Courtroom	p. 192
Solutions	p. 223
Notes	p. 241
Select Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 257
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