Event

Naomi Oreskes: "Repetition as Proof: How American Business Sold Us the Free Market and What it Means for the Environment

Date, time, location

Date

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Time

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Come join the Departments of Environmental Studies and Sciences, History, and Politics for the 2025 Bettmann Family Fund Lecture: “Repetition as Proof: How American Business Sold Us the Free Market and What it Means for the Environment,” by Naomi Oreskes. 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 a world-renowned earth scientist, historian and public speaker, the author of the best-selling book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010). Over her career, Oreskes has been at the cutting edge of demonstrating the scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change, uncovering the origins of climate disinformation, and now revealing the ideological and financial roadblocks to government-driven environmental action.

Open to all members of the public