Tag Archives: Erik Conway

Merchants of Doubt need to do the math

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Rick Altman

A feature-length documentary, based on the content of the Merchants of Doubt book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, went on general release at movie theatres in the USA this weekend. As Desmogbog.com points out, it has already attracted the … Continue reading →

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Humanity will not be able to say it was not warned

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Rick Altman

This post is to mark the impending publication of the latest book from Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, entitled The Collapse of Western Civilisation: A View From the Future. The authors have already published a summary of this book’s thesis … Continue reading →

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My book compared to Merchants of Doubt

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Rick Altman

In the Preface to my book, The Denial of Science: Analysing climate change scepticism in the UK, I make clear that it was reading Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, that prompted me to do the research … Continue reading →

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