
Blurry Visions: Bridging the Gap between Science and the Public
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Agenda
9:00 am Introduction
Shirley Tilghman, Princeton University, President
9:15 am Morning Session
Genetics of Homosexuality and HIV
Dean Hamer, National Institutes of Health
Autism and Vaccines
Paul Offit, University of Pennsylvania
Evolution and Chromosomal Changes
William Murphy, Texas A&M University
1:30 pm Afternoon Session
Welcoming Remarks
Jeremy Paul, New York Academy of Sciences
Afternoon Introductory Address
Lee Silver, Princeton University
2:00 pm Panel 1
How Politics and Government Have Affected the Current Perception of Scientists
Panelists
Rush Holt, NJ congressman
Esther Kaplan, author (With God on Their Side)
David Greenberg, Rutgers University
Samuel Wang, Princeton University
3:30 pm Panel 2
How the Media Have Played a Role in the Public Perception of Scientists, and How to Use This Information to Effectively Communicate Scientific Principles
Panelists
Robert Park, author (Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud)
Beatrice Renault, Nature Medicine
Ivan Oransky, The Scientist, and Health and the Media
Sarah Greene, New York Academy of Sciences