Erik M. Conway
Historian of science and technology
Erik M. Conway is a historian of science and technology. He co-wrote Merchants of Doubt with Naomi Oreskes.
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American Born 1965
About Erik M. Conway
Erik M. Conway was born in 1965 and is a historian of science and technology. He earned a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1998, and his doctoral research looked at how aircraft landing aids were developed. He has written several books, including High-Speed Dreams (2005) and Blind Landings (2007). Merchants of Doubt, published in 2010, was co-authored with Naomi Oreskes, and the two also wrote a 2013 Daedalus article titled The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future.