Distorting science while invoking science - Debating science shouldn't enable antiscience disinformation

Guest authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway share some research from their recent must-read book "Merchants of Doubt," which is reviewed here. The book documents how the cast of characters peddling pseudo-science had been stunningly consistent over the years, from secondhand smoke skeptics to "Star Wars" missile defense proponents to modern climate science deniers. Naomi Oreskes is a professor of history of science and provost of Sixth College at UC San Diego, and Erik Conway is a...