Naomi Oreskes - Trust in Science | PERITIA Lectures

Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) discusses Trust in Science in the first talk of the PERITIA lectures series "[Un]Truths: Trust in an Age of Disinformation".

Professor Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is an internationally renowned geologist, science historian, and author of both scholarly and popular books and articles on the history of earth and environmental science. Her authored or co-authored books include The Rejection of Continental Drift (1999), Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (2001), Merchants of Doubt (2010), the Collapse of Western Civilization (2014), Discerning Experts (2019), Why Trust Science? (2019), and Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean (2021).
The PERITIA Public Lectures [Un]Truths: Trust in an Age of Disinformation explore the concept of trust and truth in light of current events. Prominent philosophers and academics from Europe and the United States come together to present their latest research on trust in science, conspiracy theories, trustworthy science, truth and democracy, and trust and cognitive science.

Learn more about the PERITIA Lectures series here: https://peritia-trust.eu/peritia-lectures/

This video is part of PERITIA's scientific and public engagement activities. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870883. The information and opinions on this website and other communications materials are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Commission.

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Contents of this video

00:00 - Introduction
06:10 - Naomi Oreskes' presentation
33:35 - Q&A

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