10 September 2012

Ten minutes of Naomi Oreskes on her book Merchants of Doubt the strategy of manufactured doubt over climate change science

Here is Naomi Oreskes talking about the deliberately manufactured doubt over climate change science

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Here is the description of the video from Youtube.

"On October 28, 2010 historian of science Naomi Oreskes gave a presentation at Forum Lectures (US Embassy Brussels), based on her new book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, about how right wing scientists founded the George Marshall Institute which has become a key hub for successfully spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about climate change, along with other environmental issues, and how myths about science enable these political strategies to work."

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