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- Title
Book Review.
- Authors
McCahey, Daniella
- Abstract
As Oreskes acknowledges, in Stommel's case it is impossible to say whether this theory might have been developed differently without Navy funding, but she argues that Stommel had almost unfettered support in his work because the military was also interested in what he could discover. Naomi Oreskes, I Science on a Mission How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean i , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 744 pp., $40 (cloth) Daniella McCahey[1] With I Science on a Mission, i Naomi Oreskes tackles the issue of scientific funding in Cold War oceanography, trying "to determine whether United States Navy patronage affected the content of the scientific work that was done, and if so, how" (9). In her final chapters, Oreskes addresses how oceanographers sought to retain government patronage when the changing geopolitical climate meant that the Navy was reducing its support for their work.
- Subjects
MARINE mammal populations; ENVIRONMENTAL activism; CONTINENTAL drift
- Publication
Physics in Perspective, 2022, Vol 24, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
1422-6944
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1007/s00016-022-00286-8