Naomi Oreskes
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Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. , she became professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University in 2013, and in 2020 was also named the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science.
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This message of scientific uncertainty has been reinforced by the public relations campaigns of certain corporations with a large stake in the issue.
2007
Documents released during tobacco litigation demonstrate ... the crucial role that scientists played in sowing doubt about the links between smoking and health risks. ...
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global
Then-Vice President George H. W. Bush ran for president of the United States pledging to combat the “greenhouse effect with the White House effect”.
Peter C. Frumhoff, Richard Heede, and Naomi Oreskes
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Stephen Jay GouldAlso won Mary C. Rabbitt History And Philosophy of Geology Award
Matt RidleyAlso won Watson, Helen, Miles, and Audrey Davis Prize
Kaveh MadaniAlso won Ambassador Award
Hans Joachim SchellnhuberAlso won Volvo Environment Prize
Michael E. MannAlso won Stephen H. Schneider Award
Stanley PlotkinAlso won honorary doctor of the Université libre de BruxellesAbout this person
Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. After 15 years as Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego., she became professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University in 2013, and in 2020 was also named the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science. She has worked on studies of geophysics, environmental issues such as global warming, and the history of science. In 2010, Oreskes co-authored Merchants of Doubt, which identified significant parallels between the climate change debate and earlier public controversies, notably the tobacco industry's campaign to obscure the link between smoking and serious disease.
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