{{Short description|2020 non-fiction book by David Michaels}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox book | name = The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception | title_orig = | translator = | image = The Triumph of Doubt (David Michaels).png | caption = | author = David Michaels | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = | publisher =Oxford University Press | pub_date =2020 | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages =xii, 330 | isbn =978-0-19-092266-5 | oclc =1089898755 }} '''''The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception''''' is a book by David Michaels that was published in 2020.
An adaptation of material from the book was published in January 2020 in ''Boston Review''.<ref name=bostonreview>{{cite journal |last1=Michaels |first1=David |authorlink=David Michaels (epidemiologist) |title=Science for Sale |journal=Boston Review |date=21 January 2020 |url=http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/david-michaels-science-sale |accessdate=15 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
==Overview== ''Triumph of Doubt'' begins with an introductory first chapter and an overview chapter entitled "The Science of Deception." Most subsequent chapters then focus on ways that corporations have with greater or lesser success managed to obscure public understanding of scientific findings regarding specific types of products or concerns. For example, individual chapters focus on chemicals ("The Forever Chemicals," Chapter 3), concussions experienced by football players ("The NFL's Head Doctors," Chapter 4), opioids ("On Opioids," Chapter 7), climate change ("The Climate Denial Machine," Chapter 11), and sugar ("Sickeningly Sweet," Chapter 12).<ref name=triumph>{{cite book |last1=Michaels |first1=David |authorlink=David Michaels (epidemiologist) |title=The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford; New York |isbn=978-0-19-092266-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNnBDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|xi-xii}}
==Reviews and interviews==
''Triumph of Doubt'' has been reviewed in ''Science Magazine'',<ref name=kirsh20>{{cite journal |last1=Kirshenbaum |first1=Sheril |authorlink=Sheril Kirshenbaum |title=The art of misleading the public |journal=Science |date=14 February 2020 |volume=367 |issue=6479 |pages=747 |doi=10.1126/science.aba5495 |bibcode=2020Sci...367..747K |s2cid=211110439 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba5495 |language=en |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''Nature'',<ref name=lawrence20>{{cite journal |last1=Lawrence |first1=Felicity |title=Truth decay: when uncertainty is weaponized |journal=Nature |date=3 February 2020 |volume=578 |issue=7793 |pages=28–29 |doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00273-4 |bibcode=2020Natur.578...28L |language=en|doi-access=free }}</ref> ''Undark Magazine'',<ref name=asch20>{{cite journal |last1=Aschwanden |first1=Christie |authorlink=Christie Aschwanden |title=Book Review: Probing the Corporate Manipulation of Science |journal=Undark Magazine |date=14 February 2020 |url=https://undark.org/2020/02/14/triumph-of-doubt-book-review/ |accessdate=15 February 2020}}</ref> by the Union of Concerned Scientists,<ref name=rest20>{{cite web |last1=Rest |first1=Kathleen |title=Book Review: The Triumph of Doubt Exposes the Disinformation Playbook in Action |url=https://blog.ucsusa.org/kathleen-rest/book-review-the-triumph-of-doubt-exposes-the-disinformation-playbook-in-action |website=Union of Concerned Scientists |accessdate=14 February 2020 |date=14 February 2020}}</ref> and in the ''San Francisco Review of Books'' (blog).<ref name=wineberg19>{{cite news |last1=Wineberg |first1=David |title=Book Review: 'The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception' by David Michaels |url=http://www.sanfranciscoreviewofbooks.com/2019/10/book-review-triumph-of-doubt-dark-money.html |accessdate=14 February 2020 |work=San Francisco Review of Books (blog) |date=27 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
Interviews with Michaels about the book have been published in ''Salon'',<ref name=spencer20>{{cite news |last1=Spencer |first1=Keith A. |title=The art of scientific deception: How corporations use "mercenary science" to evade regulation |url=https://www.salon.com/2020/02/02/the-art-of-scientific-deception-how-corporations-use-mercenary-science-to-evade-regulation/ |website=Salon |accessdate=15 February 2020 |language=en |date=2 February 2020}}</ref> in the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'',<ref name=diep19>{{cite journal |last1=Diep |first1=Francie |title=Why Scientists Defend Dangerous Industries |journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education |date=24 November 2019 |volume=66 |issue=13 |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Scientists-Defend/247598 |accessdate=15 February 2020 |issn=0009-5982}}</ref> and in ''E&E News''.<ref name=hiar20>{{cite news |last1=Hiar |first1=Corbin |title=PUBLIC HEALTH: Former worker safety chief targets 'science of deception' |url=https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062254715 |accessdate=15 February 2020 |work=www.eenews.net |date=2 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
==Editions== *{{cite book |last1=Michaels |first1=David |title=The triumph of doubt: dark money and the science of deception |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford; New York |isbn=978-0-19-092266-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNnBDwAAQBAJ |oclc=1089898755 |language=English}}
==See also== * ''Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health'' (2008) by David Michaels
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