Mad Science

September 29, 2006

In the early ’90s, a grassroots campaign of everyday Americans formed the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition. Only it turns out it was a faux grassroots campaign – one that crafted a media message casting doubt on global warming. It's been long known that Big Oil helped fund the skeptics, but Brooke speaks with the Guardian’s George Monbiot about why it was Big Tobacco that gave "sound" science its biggest push.

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