This book is filled with facts - it can be dense and slow. However, those facts are the extraordinary evidence required to make the strong case for what is essentially a corporate conspiracy against science. Basically: I found it a slog, but it blew my mind.

A very small number of individuals have been paid to promote doubt, science monger, and generally act against the public interest for their own personal gain. What's most incredible about the book is that demonstrates that just a few people are responsible for this with multiple issues. Fred Singer and Fred Sights, most notably, were responsible for doubt mongering for the tobacco industry (in the face of cancer), for aerosol companies (in the face of the ozone hole), and for oil corporations (in the face of the climate).

This how-they-did-it guide is key to understanding how we prevent this from happening in the future.