Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes is blunt about the issue.
Hardly, says Harvard University professor and science historian Naomi Oreskes, co-author of Merchants of Doubt.
According to American science historian Spencer Weart, the frenzied assaults on climate scientists were unprecedented.
WILKINSON--Ronald Sterne Science Historian, Collector Feb. 16, 1934 - Feb. 22, 2009 Ph.D., History of Science, Michigan State.
"My own impression is we've entered a new era," said Dr. David C. Cassidy, a science historian at Hofstra University.
"In terms of development of new theories, it has been maybe the slowest period in two centuries," the science historian Spencer Weart said.
As Naomi Oreskes, a science historian and A.W.G. member, put it, "It is geologists saying, 'We are witnesses to this profound and problematic transition.
"Setting the cap for appropriations in advance, and putting that into law, does count for something," said Sarah Binder, a political science historian at George Washington University.
The artifacts came from the estate of Ronald S. Wilkinson, a science historian at the Library of Congress, who died last year.
However, in 1995, science historian Gerald L. Geison published a book showing Pasteur incorporated a rival's findings to make his anthrax vaccine functional.
Very afraid, suggests the science historian George Dyson, author of a recent biography of John von Neumann, one of the inventors of the digital computer.
