Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, and affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Her books include The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science (1999), Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming (with Erik M. Conway, 2010), and Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change (forthcoming). Her latest project is Assessing Assessments: A Historical and Philosophical Study of Scientific Assessments for Environmental Policy in the Late 20th Century (with Michael Oppenheimer, Dale Jamieson, Jessica O’Reilly, Matthew Shindell, and Keynyn Brysse).
Erik M. Conway is a historian of science and technology based in Pasadena, California. His publications include Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958 (2006), Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History (2008), and Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming (with Naomi Oreskes, 2010). His next book will be the history of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Exploration of Mars (forthcoming).