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How They Made Us Doubt EverythingEpisodes

  1. The Tobacco Playbook: 10. Leaving the Tribe

    Our story ends at the very top, with a fax to the White House.

  2. The Tobacco Playbook: 9. Deep Pockets, Useful Allies

    Oil money is pumped to scientists and think tanks in the bid to make it a culture war.

  3. The Tobacco Playbook: 8. Jerry gets ‘duped’

    A climate change sceptic realises he’s been getting it wrong

  4. The Tobacco Playbook: 7. The Opponent

    In the battle for public opinion, the scientists were no match for a well-oiled PR machine

  5. The Tobacco Playbook: 6. From Fact to Theory

    ‘Unless climate change becomes a non-issue…there may be no moment we can declare victory’

  6. The Tobacco Playbook: 5. Big Oil's Big Group

    As the world’s scientists agree on man-made climate change, oil companies form a coalition

  7. The Tobacco Playbook: 4. Tobacco in the Dock

    As the evidence against tobacco mounts, the court suits mount up. Tobacco keeps winning.

  8. The Tobacco Playbook: 3. The White Coats

    The tobacco industry’s white coats are ready, the battle of science vs science begins.

  9. The Tobacco Playbook: 2. ‘Doubt is our product'

    In 1953 PR and tobacco execs draw up a plan to fight claims that smoking causes cancer.

  10. The Tobacco Playbook: 1. Big Oil’s Big Crisis

    From climate change to smoking and cancer, this is the story of how to manufacture doubt.

  11. Welcome to How They Made Us Doubt Everything: The Tobacco Playbook

    From climate change to smoking, this is the story of how doubt has been manufactured.

  12. Talc Tales: 5. Talc on trial

    When we send off make-up for testing, the lab finds an asbestos fibre.

  13. Talc Tales: 4. ‘Time for more confusion’

    When talc might be listed as a carcinogen, the industry assembles a ‘talc task force’.

  14. Talc Tales: 3. ‘We may have problems’

    Could companies clean up their talc?

  15. Talc Tales: 2. Never 100% clean

    In the 1970s, a scientist discovers asbestos fibres in talcum powder.

  16. Talc Tales: 1. Asbestos in my make-up?

    After a cancer diagnosis, Hannah Fletcher asks if her make-up contained asbestos.

  17. Introducing Talc Tales

    Is there asbestos in make-up?

  18. Omnibus. Part 2

    From climate change to smoking and cancer, this is the story of how to manufacture doubt

  19. Omnibus. Part 1

    From climate change to smoking and cancer, this is the story of how to manufacture doubt.