Merchants of Doubt 2014 Watch Free in HD

A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.

Genre:

Documentary

Actors:

Jamy Ian Swiss, Stanton A. Glantz, Sam Roe, Patricia Callahan, James Hansen, John Passacantando, Bill OKeefe, Naomi Oreskes, Frederick Singer, Michael Shermer, James Taylor, ...»

Director:

Robert Kenner

Country:

United States

Release:

2014

IMDb:

7.6

Quality:

Duration:

96 min

Newsday

A compelling exposé of professional propagandists, though the movie itself is not agenda-free.

April 02, 2015

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Sacramento News & Review

Director Robert Kenner delivers this rote but stirring documentary about the fake experts and pseudo-scientists that are employed by corporations to spread doubt in the media about scientific facts.

May 30, 2015

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NOW Toronto

Using a magician's tricks as a metaphor for corporate tactics is clever, and Kenner's found an eloquent talking head in history of science prof Naomi Oreskes, but as in his previous flick, Food, Inc., he keeps hammering away at the same idea.

December 18, 2015

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Detroit News

Aside from an eye-opening investigation of useless and harmful flame repellents pumped into furniture, it sticks to climate change without broadening its scope to other examples of corporate spinning, which must be plentiful.

April 03, 2015

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

As a political propaganda film about the dangers of political propaganda, it's difficult to imagine Merchants of Doubt having any effect beyond the cold comfort it might bring the choir.

June 08, 2015

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Boston Globe

Subtle, it's not. But it is effective.

March 19, 2015

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Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Kenner's sympathies are clear - "Don't let them stack the deck!" the film proclaims - and ultimately Merchants of Doubt does a much better job of making you think than convincing you of what to think.

November 05, 2015

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Seattle Times

You leave "Merchants of Doubt," as you do any good muckraking documentary, both fascinated and enraged ...

March 27, 2015

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Merchants of Doubt shouldn't be a hard sell. The fact that it is should make you very mad.

March 26, 2015

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Willamette Week

The movie is at its best when profiling the titular merchants.

May 13, 2015

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Seattle Weekly

Based on the 2010 book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, the film lays out a convincing, follow-the-money trail from the tobacco industry's postwar efforts to prevent (or forestall) government regulation to a profitable lobbying specialty today.

November 12, 2015

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A movie about manufactured consensus would be a vital public service. But "Merchants of Doubt" isn't quite that movie.

April 09, 2015

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