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, we're rebroadcasting our conversation with her about these "Merchants of Doubt." (Rebroadcast)
On Friday, May 1, a new documentary film based on Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway's book Merchants of Doubt is opening at the Broadway Centre Cinemas in downtown Salt Lake City. It shares a title with the books. Merchants of Doubt screens at 12:20, 4:35, 7:00, 9:05. DETAILS
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Naomi Oreskes is a professor of the history of science and an unaffiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Along with historian Eric Conway, she co-wrote the book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming [Amazon|Indiebound].
