Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations: Creating Public Doubt about Scientific Facts

Dr. Naomi Oreskes, PhD, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, discusses the disinformation campaigns about tobacco and cancer, CFCs and the ozone hole, coal and acid rain, and now climate change. She describes the structure of those disinformation efforts and how the public can combat the "manufacture of doubt," which is the subject of her best-selling book (with Erik Conway).