Robert N. Proctor

Robert Neel Proctor (born 1954) is an American historian of science.  He is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University.  In 1999, he was the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. He was a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University.

Proctor made the word "agnotology".  Agnotology means writing untrue or misleading information about scientific data. 

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