Library
Books
Collection of books relevant to the intersection of science, information integrity, and politics.
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Oreskes and Conway (2011)
Documents the manufacturing of doubt by commercial and political interests in response to robust but inconvenient scientific evidence, from the tobacco industry’s obfuscation of smoking risks to contemporary forms of fossil-sponsored climate skepticism.
Bad Science
Goldacre (2009)
Ben Goldacre is a physician and academic who wrote The Guardian’s Bad Science column from 2003 to 2011, where he critically examined miracle cure peddlers, pseudoscientific claims, and the misleading sensationalism pervading mainstream science reporting. Goldacre’s eponymous book is a valuable contribution to the ongoing effort to improve scientific literacy, providing clear and accessible explanations of evidence-based medicine, cognitive biases, and statistical reasoning.
Why Trust Science
Oreskes (2021)
Doppelganger
A Trip into the Mirror World
Klein (2024)
Foolproof
Why misinformation infects our minds and how to build immunity
Van der Linden (2023)
The Language of Climate Politics
Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
Guenther (2024)
Control
The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Rutherford (2022)
Science Under Siege
How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World
Mann and Hotez (2025)
To read:
Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedicine (Csaba Szabo)