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Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes
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http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/oreskes/
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Books by Naomi Oreskes

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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010)

A very well-researched book of science history with a focus on environmental issues related to atmospheric chemistry and climate. A few things would have improved it: 1) Inclusion of some examples in which academic science has been motivated by the wrong reasons to create more balance. It reads a...

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010) by Naomi Oreskes
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Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014)

Eh, OK, I guess... didn't live up to the hype, in my opinion. The message is very important... but the presentation was lacking. The premise is an important one and the idea was worth pursuing, but it's really about the length of a New Yorker article padded out to 80 pages with a wholly unnecessa...

Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014) by Naomi Oreskes
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The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014)

A frighteningly plausible view from a few hundred years in the future, when climate change has wreaked havoc with a world we still take for granted. The central and perplexing question that may be posed by future historians is why we have so easily succumbed to "active denial." Why were we unable...

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014) by Naomi Oreskes

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