Historian Naomi Oreskes says that while the U.S. scientific community has led the world in research on issues like public health and environmental science, there's also a small group of scientists that mislead the public with ideas based on political agendas rather than science. Oreskes has written a book that explores how this has skewed our understanding of climate change, tobacco and more. Monday she joins Doug to talk about these "Merchants of Doubt." (Rebroadcast)
- In February, Naomi Oreskes spoke at the University of Utah's Wallace Stegner Center. You can view an archived video of her lecture
- Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
