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Merchants of Doubt Author Slams "Corrosive" Climate Change Skepticism
2014-10-06 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Historian of science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that "verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible." In The End of Science, I cited the Oreskes et al. paper when I challenged the claim that computers will revolutionize research into so-called complex systems. "The tobacco industry was way ahead of the postmodernists," says Naomi Oreskes, co-author of Merchants of Doubt,...
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