{"id":220639,"date":"2025-08-21T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/misinformation-and-distrust-in-science-with-naomi-oreskes"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:05:54","slug":"misinformation-and-distrust-in-science-with-naomi-oreskes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/misinformation-and-distrust-in-science-with-naomi-oreskes","title":{"rendered":"Misinformation and distrust in science \u2014 with Naomi Oreskes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DbTHJWev0nQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Find out how organisations like tobacco and fossil fuel companies sell doubt about science, in order to undermine public trust.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Naomi\u2019s recent talk about the origin of the plate tectonics theory here: \u2022 Rethinking the origin of plate tectonics -\u2026 and if you sign up as one of our Science Supporters, see the full Q&amp;A here: \u2022 Q&amp;A: Rethinking the origin of plate tecton\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Buy Naomi\u2019s book \u2018Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming\u2019 here: <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/orTZL9D\">https:\/\/geni.us\/orTZL9D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction.<br \/> 0:41 Why do bad actors work to create mistrust in science?<br \/> 2:26 How do bad actors create mistrust in science?<br \/> 3:24 How does the fossil fuel industry create mistrust?<br \/> 5:04 How can we rebuild trust in science and government?<br \/> 7:50 Does it matter who funds science?<br \/> 11:52 What role does government regulation play in science?<br \/> 14:01 How does the concept of freedom affect the climate debate?<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She has worked on studies of geophysics, climate change and the history of science. She sits on the board of US based not-for-profit organisations the National Center for Science Education and Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. She is a distinguished speaker and has published 10 books, including Science on a Mission and The Big Myth.<\/p>\n<p>The Ri is on Twitter: \/ ri_science.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/misinformation-and-distrust-in-science-with-naomi-oreskes\">Continue reading \u201cMisinformation and distrust in science \u2014 with Naomi Oreskes\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out how organisations like tobacco and fossil fuel companies sell doubt about science, in order to undermine public trust. You can watch Naomi\u2019s recent talk about the origin of the plate tectonics theory here: \u2022 Rethinking the origin of plate tectonics -\u2026 and if you sign up as one of our Science Supporters, see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1490,1496,224,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-government","category-law","category-science","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}