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Please read the general guidelines and evaluation rubric.

For this particular paper, I suggest you take a look at the following checklist:

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I. Core Argument

☐ Can you summarize the chapter’s central claim in 3–4 clear sentences?

☐ What is the scientific consensus described in this chapter?

☐ What is the main strategy used to undermine that consensus?

☐ Is this primarily a scientific dispute — or a political-economic one?

II. Identify the Economic Stakes

☐ What industries or economic interests are implicated?

☐ Who faces financial losses if regulation occurs?

☐ Who benefits from delay?

☐ What are the short-term vs long-term economic tradeoffs?

☐ Does the chapter show that skepticism was about:

• Scientific error?
• Regulatory costs?
• Ideological opposition to government intervention?

III. The Production of Doubt

☐ How was uncertainty amplified?

☐ Were the dissenting scientists: