Hybrid: Science Under Pressure: Restoring Public Confidence, 29 May
Sense About Science are hosting this hybrid event looking at how the relationship between science and the public might be improved.
This event is the last in a series from Sense About Science in their Science, Scepticism and Free Speech series. The two speakers, Tracey Brown, Director of Sense about Science, and Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Sceptic, will reflect on the issues raised in the earlier lectures and debate how the relationship between science and the public might be improved.
When does healthy scepticism become a refusal to accept well-evidenced truth? How can we uphold science without succumbing to ‘scientism’? How can the public distinguish between relevant expertise and those who merely have strong opinions and loud voices?
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