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Professor Naomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. Dr. Erik M. Conway is a historian of science and technology at Caltech. Together, they’re the bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from To…