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The following article from ClimateScienceWatch.org was posted on Friday, March 05, 2010 and is available in its entirety at the following Web address: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/naomi-oreskes-on-doubt-mongers/ Title: "Naomi Oreskes: How a handful of scientists obscure the truth on global warming" Introduction: Here’s a heads-up on a forthcoming book about the denial machine: In a videotaped lecture, University of California professor Naomi Oreskes discusses Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, co-authored with Erik Conway. From the publisher’s pre-publication announcement: “Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly—some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is ‘not settled’ denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. “Doubt is our product,” wrote one tobacco executive. These ‘experts’ supplied it.” See Details for the video of Prof. Oreskes’s talk.