Why do people deny science?

Sep 10, 2015

Naomi Oreskes

Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

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“Why don’t people accept the science of climate change? This is part of a much bigger pattern.”

Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, introduces a new documentary about science doubters and disruptive climate change, Merchants of Doubt.

Author: Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

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