Merchants of Doubt
2014 · 96 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 3,977 VOTES · DIR. Robert Kenner
Overview
Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,361 lines
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00:01:12 My expertise is in deception.
00:05:41 -Here. You could read this. -Let me ask you something.
00:09:25 It may be or it may not be. We don't know.
00:13:17 And they had this perfect scapegoat, and it was furniture.
00:16:54 ...is all about the sleight-of-hand maneuver the Monte operator uses...
00:20:34 ...for hundreds of thousands of years.
00:23:51 The way they used to say, "Luckys make you healthy."
00:27:43 ...are called, not just skeptics, which is a good word...
00:31:17 ...Green on the outside, Red inside...
00:35:13 I'm trained enough to realize what the data actually show.
00:38:34 They're abnormally cool.
00:42:16 So that more than half the American people think that the science isn't settled.
00:45:45 When have these bills come up before? Did Dr. Heimbach show up?"
00:49:56 -...to make landfall. -A category five...
00:54:01 No, we're not doing science.
00:57:44 Nobody's gonna believe ExxonMobil.
01:01:12 You decided to go to work for Senator James Inhofe.
01:04:57 ...is going after the individuals, where something lives or dies.
01:08:39 ...that began with e-mails that were stolen--
01:12:13 These people tell us where to work...
01:15:39 And then coinciding with the industrial revolution, there's an uptick.
01:19:44 We're after-- The target audience is red-state Republicans.
01:23:12 I mean, the science is pretty clear.
01:27:17 There will be billions of dollars in real-estate losses.
Cast & Characters
Frederick Singer
Self
Naomi Oreskes
Self - Professor of the History of Science
Jamy Ian Swiss
Self - Magician and Magic Historian
Sam Roe
Self - Journalist, Chicago Tribune
Stanton A. Glantz
Self
Patricia Callahan
Self - Journalist, Chicago Tribune
James Hansen
Self - Climate Scientist
John Passacantando
Self - Former Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
Bill O'Keefe
Self - Former Chairman of Global Climate Coalition
Michael Shermer
Self - Founder of The Skeptics Society
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,361
Dialogue density14.2 lines / min
First line00:01:12
Final line01:27:17
Production Record
DirectorRobert Kenner
LanguageEnglish
Revenue$192,400
IMDb votes3,977