Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

"...Tierney has written a fascinating, but also frustrating, ethnography of the practices and beliefs of cold war medical and social science researchers....Tierney unfortunately has presented his case in a way that allows for easy dismissal....[His] missteps here speak to a larger problem with the book, which draws its inspiration more from THE X-FILES than from the Frankfurt School.Tierney, Patrick is the author of 'Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon' with ISBN 9780393049220 and ISBN 0393049221.