Naomi Oreskes: "Merchants of Doubt" (Part 3 of 6)

[olavodeca]

Naomi Oreskes is a scientifically inept and a poor historian. Her famous claim of a scientific consensus based on 900 papers missed more than 11,000... Her grasp of science is so poor she isn’t familiar with the pH scale, thinks Beryllium is a heavy metal, mistakenly assumes that CO2 is trapped in the troposphere, and climate models can predict forest fires and floods. Embarrassingly, Oreskes doesn’t understand the difference between reactive oxygen and radioactive oxygen. (“American Thinker”)

[johnmcaraher]

These attacks are based on (deliberately) inept reading of Oreskes. For instance, the part about radioactive oxygen is a flat-out lie (Google "Fred Singer's latest whopper" for a definitive rebuttal)

[JoeJohn90]

She is a gorgeous historian.