Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes is the Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author or coauthor of seven books, including Merchants of Doubt (2010), Discerning Experts (2019), and Why Trust Science? (2019). Her articles and essays on climate change have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Times of London. She was an early Orcas Currents lecturer.

Why Trust Science?

By Naomi Oreskes

We should trust scientific results because they are based on empirical evidence and theoretical reasoning that have withstood the critical scrutiny of a diverse community of skeptical experts.
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