There is nothing in Robert Kenner's "Merchants of Doubt," his follow-up documentary to 2008's fascinating expose of corporate malfeasance in the food sector "Food Inc," that we disagree with, or even want to weakly rebut. Nothing. The fluidly argued points flow with flawless logic one into the other, and the manner in which he traces the strategies used currently by vested interests in defence of their bottom lines, straight back to the playbook set out by Big Tobacco in the 1950s is irrefutable and wholly convincing, especially when presented in so enjoyably arch and ironic a manner. We vehemently agreed, laughed along at the more incredible and egregious fallacies highlighted, and could feel every single other member of the audience at our Goteborg International Film Festival screening doing the same. And that's a problem.
"Merchants of Doubt," inspired by the Naomi Oreskes and Eric M Conway non-fiction book of the same name, (Oreskes appears in the...
