“Oreskes considered the possibility that scientists were afraid of being attacked by skeptics.”
Er, excuse me, but skeptics do not attack scientists: Denialists and other insane sociopaths do. I have been a skeptic for a very long time. I was a founding member of the bay Area Skeptics; I have been a member of The Skeptics Society for 28 years. I have attended scores of skeptics conferences and meetings. WE DO NOT ATTACK SCIENTISTS, let alone climatologists, let alone the evidence for human-caused climate change. You will find damn few, if any, skeptics who deny humans have caused and are causing climate change.
