March 31, 2008 - Two early reviews of Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (Oxford University Press), by Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy Director David Michaels, praise the book for showing how manufactured uncertainty harms health and the environment:

With his extensive chronicling of just how many times the manufacturing-uncertainty strategy has been used to make our world more dangerous, Michaels has performed a great service. Moreover, because he's a scientist himself and has seen these abuses up close in government, he can go much further than muckraking journalists who have often sought to expose this kind of malfeasance. -- Chris Mooney, The American Prospect

In his riveting new book, “Doubt Is Their Product,” George Washington University epidemiologist David Michaels details how Big Tobacco originated the cottage industry of doubt in the 1950s. Many of the same scientists and public relations firms worked first to defend tobacco before moving on to chromium, asbestos and other toxic substances. They did so not by denying harm, but by raising questions about its extent. -- Arthur Allen, The Washington Independent

Doubt is Their Product's official publication date is May 1, 2008. It is available for ordering from Amazon.com and Powells.com.