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A movie about manufactured consensus would be a vital public service. But "Merchants of Doubt" isn't quite that movie.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Merchants of Doubt
How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming.
2014 · 1h 36m · PG-13 Documentary
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Merchants of Doubt
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Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.
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Fresh
Aside from an eye-opening investigation of useless and harmful flame repellents pumped into furniture, it sticks to climate change without broadening its scope to other examples of corporate spinning, which must be plentiful.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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A compelling expose of professional propagandists, though the movie itself is not agenda-free.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday
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You leave "Merchants of Doubt," as you do any good muckraking documentary, both fascinated and enraged ...
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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Merchants of Doubt shouldn't be a hard sell. The fact that it is should make you very mad.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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