“If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions” — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“CO2 had increased due to human activities, CO2 will continue to increase unless changes are made, and these increases will affect weather,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“Call it the “Tobacco Strategy.” Its target was science, and so it relied heavily on scientists—with guidance from industry lawyers and public… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“If science took the side of regulation—or even gave evidence to support the idea that regulation might be needed to protect the… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“In case after case, Fred Singer, Fred Seitz, and a handful of other scientists joined forces with think tanks and private corporations… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“Western scientists built an intellectual culture based on the premise that it was worse to fool oneself into believing in something that… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“The chapters written by the natural scientists were broadly consistent with what other natural scientists had already said. No one challenged the… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its wake. The… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“By the early 2000s, dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system was under way. Fires, floods, hurricanes, and heat waves began to intensify. Still,… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“The writer C. S. Lewis once characterized this style of argument: “The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, wrote a report questioning the evidence of global warming.15 They were soon invited to the White House to brief… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“Congress was also looking into climate change. The 1978 National Climate Act had established a national climate research program,” — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
