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Merchants of Doubt

"How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming."

2014-11-08 Documentary 1hr 36m

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.

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Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.

  • Released
    2014-11-08
  • Revenue
    $192,400
  • Budget
    n/a
  • Runtime
    1hr 36m
  • Genre
    Documentary
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
    7.6
  • Production
    Participant

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Robert Kenner
Director
Robert Kenner
Writer

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A Review by Rangan 9

Written by Rangan on 2015-10-14

> Beware of the wolves in the sheepskins. I want to begin with what usually comes in the final paragraph in any review that it is a must ... read more

> Beware of the wolves in the sheepskins. I want to begin with what usually comes in the final paragraph in any review that it is a must see film. No matter who you are, whatever your profession is, you must not skip it for many reasons. The film was based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and directed by the Oscar nominated documentary 'Food, Inc.' filmmaker. Recently I read somewhere that 'there are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones'. I thought it was a stat that makes clear there are very less flamingos than we presumed. But the point is it gives a different meaning when the same line used as a reference for this film. It is going to be big stride, yes it is. It all began after the WWII and carried out throughout 50 years during the Cold War, but just recent decades everyone realised its seriousness. When someone interferes with our personal thing, stating that he's an official from the respective field, we ask for the identity proof. But what if it is a conspiracy, how we are going to know it. The common people are always falling prey for such tricks because of the corrupted ministers and the powerful giant corporates. Like, we're the sheep herd and they are the wolves in the sheep's skin. This film is not trying to expose them their entire wrong doings, but on a particular topic, and that is the Global Warming. The media and press plays a crucial part here, but some of them opted a wrong path. Maybe because of the poor knowledge and investigation, or influenced people around them. So the story opens with the cigarettes, how the tobacco companies fooled people in the 60s, 70s till the 90s. The book this movie adapted was written by an American historian, so it's all about the things that happened in the States. But it is still very much the world's concern too, as America is one of the top countries to export modern science and technology to all the corners, especially the third world countries. > "We're leaving our children and grandchildren, > the legacy of people who failed to lead." Today's world's hot topic is, the climate change. Because of human there are plenty of species gone extinct than the natural extinct happened in the presence of human alongside. So, the biggest them all is he's posing a same threat to himself. If that happens, the human will be wiped out. The earth will recycle itself over the thousand years of evolution and the life will be restored, the new kind. Human is the only animal on the earth who do stuff for pleasure and those pleasures comes in many ways. One such thing is the money. Science is not one hundred per cent perfect, not yet, but that is the closest estimation that we have today to predict anything advancely. The world is not the same compared to 100 years ago, the religion is no more threat to the science. The evolution in science is taking place at a brisk pace, lots of stuffs were studied, understood, discovered in the last two decades than over two thousand years. Those who are doing their work is constantly interrupted by the new kind of troublemakers. Those people are the hired counterparts to the scientists who claims they are experts, but why they are doing it is a disgusting truth. It is a very good message movie. You might probably realise from now on who to believe and why, because that was this documentary's notion that makes people open their eyes to the truth and reality. If you're still in your blindfold, then you're on the wrong side with the wrong people. I want to make you clear on one final thing that this documentary is not trying to prove the Global Warming theory, but it was a debate between the people who tried to stop it and the people who tried to prove it was not a hoax. It is about exposing the dirty works. 9/10

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A Review by Reno

> Beware of the wolves in the sheepskins. I want to begin with what usually comes in the final paragraph in any review that it is a must see film. No matter who you are, whatever your profession is, you must not skip it for many reasons....

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A Review by Rangan 9

Written by Rangan on 2015-10-14

> Beware of the wolves in the sheepskins. I want to begin with what usually comes in the final paragraph in any review that it is a must see film. No matter who you are, whatever your profession is...

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