Trust in science

King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs is running a series of lectures on trust in science that looks very interesting. Bit far for me to drop in, but if you're in the neighbourhood...

The ChronicleHerald article is below the fold.

King's, ethics centre present five-part lecture series on how we trust in science

The University of King's College, together with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs, is presenting the five-part Trust in Science lecture series, beginning Oct. 26.

The first lecture, Setting the Scene: From Magician to Miracle-Maker, features Dr. Steven Shapin, a history of science professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

The event will be held Thursday in the alumni hall at the University of King's College at 6350 Coburg Rd., beginning at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. All are welcome and a reception will follow.

The second lecture is titled The View from Within: Does Science Trust Itself? It will feature David T. Scadden, a professor of medicine at Harvard, and is set for Nov. 30.

Dr. Janice Graham, Canadian research chair in bioethics at Dalhousie Unviersity in Halifax, will lecture on the topic Inside Out: From the Test Tube to the Dinner Table on Jan. 25. Dr. Graham is a medical anthropologist interested in biotechnology and technoscience.

Francoise Baylis, professor and Canada research chair in bioethics and philosophy at Dalhousie, will moderate a March 1 session titled Whose Business is it Anyway? Science and the Corporate World. Panelists are Dr. Ford Doolittle, director of the program in evolutionary biology of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Dalhousie; Dr. Siddika Mithani, a pharmacist and director general of the veterinary drugs directorate of Health Canada; and Dr. Calvin Stiller, a top Canadian transplant and immunization specialist, a faculty of medicine member at University of Western Ontario and a founder of several medical-related companies.

The March 15 lecture, Our Business: Science and the Public Trust, will be given by Dr. Sheila Jasanoff, a professor of science and technology studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Her specialty is the role of science and technology in politics and policy in modern democracies.