Trust Us, We're Experts
2001 book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
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Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future is a book written by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.[1][2][3][4][5] It is published by Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc. of the Penguin Group. The book focuses on the role experts hired by public relations firms play in quieting public fear with inaccurate or incomplete information when dangerous toxins from industrial processes are released into the environment.[6][7]
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc. |
| Publication date | 2001 |
An April 2001 Village Voice review of the book says the book is "exhaustively detailed", "calmly convincing", and "light on rhetoric", warning readers that the book may induce "paranoid fatalism" about corporate manipulations.[8]