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The doubt fighter

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Science historian and 2011 Climate Change Communicator of the Year award-winner Naomi Oreskes talks to Nicola Jones about her latest book Merchants of Doubt (co-authored with Erik Conway), which documents how scientists obscured the truth on global warming.

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  • 15 August 2011

    In the version of this Interview originally published, Milton Friedman's surname was spelt incorrectly throughout; this has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions.

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Jones, N. The doubt fighter. Nature Clim Change 1, 239–240 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1183

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