Why Trust Science? with Naomi Oreskes, science historian and author

A conversation with Dr. Naomi Oreskes, professor of the History of Science, and author of Why Trust Science, and Merchants of Doubt. This episode may be viewed as a video here.

Dr. Oreskes is a world-renowned earth scientist, historian and public speaker, as well as a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action. She is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science; and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.  Dr. Oreskes is the author or co-author of 10 books, including Why Trust Science?; The Collapse of Western Civilization; Discerning Experts; and of course the best selling book Merchants of Doubt, co-authored with Erik Conway, which has been translated into nine languages and was made into a documentary film of the same name. 

She is also author or co-author of over 150 articles, essays and opinion pieces, some of which have appeared in leading newspapers around the globe, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and the Times (of London). Her numerous awards and prizes include the 2019 Geological Society of America Mary C. Rabbitt Award; the British Academy Medal 2019; and the 2016 Stephen Schneider Award for outstanding Climate Science Communication, to name just a few. 

She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. In 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for her upcoming book with Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, which will be published by Bloomsbury Press in February 2023.