Merchants of Doubt (2014)

Naomi Oreskes: Self - Professor of the History of Science

Quotes 

• Herself - Professor of the History of Science : When my article got published, I received emails that threatened me, that said I was a communist, that I should be fired from my job. And when I started to research the people who were attacking me, that's when I discovered a startling fact: They were the same people who had attacked the scientists on all these different issues, like acid rain or the ozone hole.

• Herself - Professor of the History of Science : We got a list of all the papers that had been published from 1992 to 2002 that had used they key word phrase "global climate change." And then we read them. The question was, How many of these papers *disagree* that most of the observed warming is due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations? I certainly thought we would get some that disagreed. And when we found *nothing*, then I thought, "Oh, this is a result that needs to be published."