For more than fifty years, industries that have manufactured dangerous products have used “doubt” to challenge scientific evidence of those dangers, and to delay action to protect citizens’ health and safety. Naomi Oreskes presents the results of ten years of research on the topic, and provides an update on where we are today.

Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Harvard University. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and opinion pieces. Her most recent books are Merchants of Doubt, which was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times book prize and released as a documentary film by the same name in 2015, and The Collapse of Western Civilization, both co-authored with Erik M. Conway. She has won numerous prizes and awards, including, most recently, the 2015 Herbert Feis Prize of the American Historical Association for her contributions to public history.