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Unlike other sources of science funding that Oreskes has previously studied - particularly the tobacco and chemical industries - the US Navy was a "good" patron. In her massive new book, Naomi Oreskes sets out to understand and explain how oceanography's sources of funding shaped both knowledge about and ignorance concerning the oceans. The fortunes of modern oceanography: Naomi Oreskes: Science on a mission: how military funding shaped what we do and don't know about the ocean. [Extracted from the article]