Podcast Episodes featuring Naomi Oreskes

#149: Naomi Oreskes meets Sustainababble

Sustainababble - September 22, 2019 18:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
We chat to an actual proper Harvard Professor, blessed with a brain as large as her laugh. Author, activist and splendid person Naomi Oreskes - crusading scourge of Inhofes everywhere - tells us why we should trust science (spoiler: because it's science). In a giggle-packed natter, Dave and Ol ...

32 | Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas - February 04, 2019 02:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
Our climate is in the midst of dramatic changes, driven largely by human activity, with potentially enormous consequences for humanity and other species. That’s why science tells us, anyway. But there is an influential contingent, especially in the United States, who deny that reality, a...

The Sixth Annual Stephen Schneider Award: Naomi Oreskes and Steven Chu

Climate One - January 06, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratings
Science historian Naomi Oreskes has had her share of hate mail from climate deniers. But, she says, “We can't give up on the challenge of explaining science.” Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History of Science and Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University, author of “Merchants of Doubt: How a...

43 Naomi Oreskes - The Collapse of Western Civilization

Inquiring Minds - July 18, 2014 01:44 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratings
You don't know it yet. There's no way that you could. But 400 years from now, a historian will write that the time in which you're now living is the "Penumbral Age" of human history—meaning, the period when a dark shadow began to fall over us all. You're living at the start of a new dark age, a ...

Naomi Oreskes - Neoliberalism and the Denial of Global Warming

Point of Inquiry - April 24, 2012 23:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
Host: Chris Mooney This week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a conference convened entitled "Science Writing in the Age of Denial." The keynote speaker was a former Point of Inquiry guest and a very popular one—Naomi Oreskes, co-author of the influential book Merchants of Doubt: How a H...

Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt

Point of Inquiry - June 04, 2010 17:32 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
This week’s guest is Naomi Oreskes, co-author with historian Eric Conway of the new book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Through extensive archival research, Oreskes and Conway have managed to connect the dots be...