Naomi Oreskes

Let’s just be clear : nicotine is an addictive drug

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity | Fortune Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.

fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

Jessica Riskin at the Harvard Science Center | Harvard Book Store downstairs at 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

In Boston area? Join me with Jessica Riskin, March 24, to discuss her new book on Lamarck.
www.harvard.com/event/jessic...

Thank you!
A colleague yesterday told me that when she was recently in an administrative role in a major R1 university, her colleagues said, "Oh we will just get the money from foundations." Yeah, well, not really. This piece explains why.

Yep.

Unspoken Crisis: What Our Analysis of 700,000 U.S. Catholic Services Did Not Find Climate change is no longer a distant “global issue.” It is local emergencies that carry the names of friends and neighbors. Heat waves, wildfires, flash floods, and other extreme weather events are b...

We analyzed 700,000 U.S. Catholic services to ask a simple question: how often do congregations hear about climate change?

The answer: almost never.

Read more: reckoningscience.org/unspoken-cri...

With @naomioreskes.bsky.social at @reckoningscience.org

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

My latest:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

Opinion | Roundup needs legal protections. This is the wrong way to do it. Glyphosate’s link to cancer has long been tenuous at best.

and now WaPo is defending glyphosate:
wapo.st/4tUf8Bf

Wow. If Cargill tells farmers not to use glyphosate...

Opinion | Roundup needs legal protections. This is the wrong way to do it. Glyphosate’s link to cancer has long been tenuous at best.

I've been holding onto my subscription to WaPo, mostly out of loyalty to #CarolynHax, but this is the last straw. Glyphosate does not need protection!!! The American people need protection from toxic chemicals & our regulatory system needs protection from corporate interference.

wapo.st/4tUf8Bf

We can only hope.

Opinion | Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today

Brilliant piece. But what do we DO?

Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

Economic Growth at Any Cost Fails Us All We saw this paradigm at Davos last week, as leaders talked up growth. But that fails the planet and the world’s poorest.

Today's must-read:
time.com/7358059/econ...

Remember what Maya Angelou said: when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Makes sense. Wrap your GMO ultra-processed bread in asbestos lined wrappers. Oh... and throw in some PFAS in that packaging, too.

MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’

Here’s a shocking fact: they were lied to.

MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

Apparently. Between glyphosate and climate change.... he is covering a lot of bases.

Pathetic. She sells her soul, but for what?

Who writes the science behind your food safety? | The Metro For 25 years, regulators cited a safety study on Roundup that was ghostwritten by the company that sold it. Now it's been retracted.

You may have seen that #Trump is seeking to INCREASE glyphosate production, under Defense Production act.
Make my conversation with Robyn Vincent this week even more relevant:

wdet.org/2026/02/17/t...

Mars as a Red Herring in Climate Conversations Mars has been a place for dreams for a long time. A god of war, a planet, the home of invaders in science fiction, more recently the scientific and space exploration frontier. The details change, but ...

Our latest

reckoningscience.org/mars-as-a-re...

Jeff Bezos gets philanthropy award at Vatican even as ex-wife gives away more money Ex-wife MacKenzie Scott giving away her billions at a faster clip, according to observers

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fifa-re...

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

As a historian of science, I was raised to think rejecting science was a pathology of anti-democratic governments. Well, this might be the proof of that.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Lineages of Science in a Warming World: Who Owns Climate Knowledge? Science is often spoken of as if it were a single institution: what science says, what science has shown. In practice, it is a tangle of labs, companies, contracts, grants, and norms that fall, broadl...

Today's post:
reckoningscience.org/lineages-of-...

Just imagine what he could have achieved if he loved bees.

More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda US courts, scholars and Democrats are pushing back against the president’s aggressive drive to boost fossil fuels

Just in case it wasn't obvious that Trump's energy policies make no sense, except for his cronies:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tomoorow at noon ET! Get up to date in the latest research on climate disinformation and obstruction :

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Olympic athletes protest big oil Several athletes are objecting to the International Olympic Committee over sponsorship of the Games by major oil companies. They say fossil fuel use threatens winter conditions needed for snow sports.

Thanks to the ever-courageous @LINDSEY VONN for showing yet another domain of courage: "As a ski racer, I've seen firsthand what global warming has done...[M]ost of the glaciers that I used to ski on are pretty much gone."
www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...

The Trump administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

DOE officials should hang their heads in shame.

www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

I just discovered : @bookblasts.bsky.social
I think everyone should follow them. What a great idea.