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by ojbyrne 5681 days ago
Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health

Not really the audience here (it has a very anti-libertarian message), but I found this book to be eye-opening. Basically it's about how companies create uncertainty, delay, litigate, whatever it takes to keep extremely harmful products from being made illegal (most of the methods were pioneered by the tobacco industry). I found it eye-opening.