Nowadays, the most well known (and probably best financed) campaign to manufacture scientific doubt is being waged by the fossil fuel industry in an effort to impugn scientists’ work on issues related to climate change. When confronted by an overwhelming worldwide scientific consensus on the contribution of human activity to global warming over the past century, the industry and its political allies follow the tobacco road.
当今，最广为人知的（也可能是有最雄厚财力支持的）制造科学怀疑的攻势是由化石燃料行业发动，旨在驳斥科学家们对气候变化相关问题的研究。面对强大的世界范围内对人类活动影响全球变暖的科学共识，该行业及其政治盟友就效法烟草行业的策略。