
Naomi Oreskes
Are the Merchants of Doubt Still Selling?
Festival of Ideas/
Thu 18 June 2015
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.