Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her 2004 essay “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,” cited by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth (2006), led to op-ed pieces in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and to Congressional testimony in the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. With Erik Conway, she is the author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, and The Big Myth: How American Business Taught us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
Erik M. Conway is a professor of history at Purdue University. His most recent books are A History of Near Earth Objects Research and with Naomi Oreskes, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.