Film Review: Merchants of Doubt

No doubt about it: Kenner’s new film is mediocre

Physicist and climate change skeptic Fred Singer makes his case in Merchants of Doubt.
Physicist and climate change skeptic Fred Singer makes his case in Merchants of Doubt.

Documentarian Robert Kenner, who deservedly earned an Oscar nomination and several other awards for Food Inc., his last documentary, unfortunately doesn’t retain the same level of quality in his newest film, Merchants of Doubt. The picture, inspired by a book of the same name by science writers Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, doesn’t even come close to covering the range of topics promised by the book’s subtitle (which Kenner wisely drops): How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.

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