The article describes lateral gene transfer – something that was not included in The Origin of Species, but really does not obscure the truth of evolutionary theory at all.
He wants Borges to know who he is, and the only way to do this is not only to tell Borges the narrative that gives definition to his identity but also to tell it in such a way that Borges might receive it with clear understanding, without any prejudice that would obscure the truth of Moon's moral character.
"It is so hard to find out the truth of anything by looking at the record of the past," wrote Plutarch; "The process of time obscures the truth of former times, and even contemporaneous writers disguise and twist the truth out of malice or flattery" (4 ).
Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard historian of science who has long studied the denial industry and wrote the indispensable book "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming," sees Exxon's hire of Wells as a positive and as a potential sign the company sees the writing on the wall. .
In their new book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway track another group of influencers, exerting power across a wide range of life-and-death debates over science and public health policy, everything from global warming to the dangers of cigarettes to acid rain.
What they came up with was making a film by conservatives, for conservatives, hopefully better than the latest Lomborg production that should be added to the next edition of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming".
The most scholarly of the three climate books is Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press) by Naomi Oreskes, professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Erik M. Conway, who previously wrote a history of NASA's atmospheric-science program.
This summer, if it were cooler, I'd suggest you read the eye-opener of the year: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.
And what an insidious industry it is, as Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway reveal in The Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.
