Industry has limitless creativity when it comes to shirking responsibility for its dangerous business, according to ‘Trust us, we’re experts’. The investigative book, sub-titled ‘How industry manipulates science and gambles with your future’, includes several examples of the industry PR ruses used to defend workplace toxins, including asbestos and other carcinogens. These include the creation of industry funded “astroturf” organisations and scientists funded to present the industry line as “impartial” facts.

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. Trust us, we’re experts, Tarcher/Putham, 2001.