What's the Difference Between Science and the New York Review of Books?

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"There are known knowns, the things that we know we know. There areknown unknowns, theThings that we know that we do not know," he says. "I wonder if there's some epistemological wall we'll hid in science or even philosophy." He asks: 'What was there before the big bang, or before the multi verse, or where the strings come from? Is there some point at which we will figure out a final theory of whatever?'

In this interview, based on her landmark book, Why Trust Science?, historian of science Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength — and the greatest reason we can trust it. Drawing vital lessons from cases where scientists got it wrong, Oreskes shows how consensus is a crucial indicator of when a scientific matter has been settled, and when the knowledge produced is likely to be trustworthy.