LA Times: Cultural Production of Ignorance
"Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford, is one of the world's leading experts in agnotology, a neologism signifying the study of the cultural production of ignorance. It's a rich field, especially today when whole industries devote themselves to sowing public misinformation and doubt about their products and activities."
David Michaels has detailed the corporate tactics in this book. Read it and weep.