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The
increasing politicization of science can lead to policy
decisions that run counter to accepted
scientific consensus and risk endangering our health and
well-being.
Scientists
and policy-makers from across the political spectrum will assess
the current tension between politics and science and discuss how to
increase
the likelihood that the best science becomes the basis for future
public
policy.
A Social
Research Conference
The
New
School , February 9 and 10, 2006
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Thursday, February 9
10:30 A.M. - 1:15 P.M.
Session
I: Recent History: The Emerging Conflict between Politics and Science
Has the balance
of power among the various interests that play a role in determining
public policy changed? What changes have occurred in the influence of
science? What are the consequences of these changes? What lessons can
be learned from past successes and failures in creating public policy?
Rita Colwell, Chairman, Canon US
Life Science, Inc.; Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland
College Park and John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public
Health; Former Director, National Science Foundation
Henry Kelly, President, Federation
of American Scientists
Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward
Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, Program in
History of Medicine, Yale University Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences
Moderator:
Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt
Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of History of
Science, Harvard University
2:15
P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Session
II: Health
What are the
roles of scientific, political, religious, and corporate interests in
the creation of health policy, for example reproductive health policy?
Has the relationship among these forces changed? If so, what are the
consequences for our well-being?
Eric Cohen, Director, Biotechnology
and American Democracy Program, Ethics and Public Policy Center;
Editor, The New Atlantis
M. Joycelyn Elders M.D.,
Distinguished Professor, College of Public Health, Professor Emeritus,
College of Medicine, University of Arkansas School of Medical Sciences;
Former United States Surgeon General
William Hurlbut, Consulting
Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford
University Medical Center, Member, President’s Council on Bioethics
John
S. Santelli M.D., Professor and
Chairman, Heilbrunn
Department of Population and Family Health and Clinical Pediatrics,
Mailman
School of Public Health, Columbia University
Moderator: Bernard Goldstein, Professor and Former Dean, Univeristy of
Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
5:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.
Reception
6:00 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.
Session III: Keynote Address by Neal Lane, Science Advisor to
President Clinton; Former Director of the National Science Foundation
Why this
conference now? How has the relationship between science and politics
changed? Where have we been, where are we now, and where should we be
going?
Q
& A by Bob Kerrey, President, The New School;
Former U.S. Senator from Nebraska
Friday
February 10
10:00A.M. - 12:450 A.M.
Session
IV: The Environment
What is the role
of science and scientists in making environmental policy? What
interests compete to create policies affecting the environment? Has the
balance among them changed? If so, how? What are the consequences?
Paul Ehrlich, President, Center for
Conservation Biology; Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford
University
James
E. Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Steven F. Hayward, F. K.
Weyerhaeuser
Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research;
Senior fellow, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G.
Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and
Director, Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy,
Princeton University
Moderator: Dawn Rittenhouse, Director,
Sustainable Development, Dupont
1:45
P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Session
V: Energy: Technology and Sources of Power
What is the role
of science and scientists in making energy policy? Has this changed,
and if so, how? If a change has occurred, is it a matter of the
relative influence of scientists, corporations and politicians? How are
the issues tied to new trends in globalization? What are the
consequences of these changes?
Paul Gilman, Director, Oak Ridge
Center for Advanced Studies at ORNL; Former Science Advisor, United
States Environmental Protection Agency
Kurt Gottfried, Professor Emeritus
of Physics, Cornell University; Co-founder and Chair, Union of
Concerned Scientists
Martin Hoffert, Professor Emeritus
of Physics, New York University
William F. Martin, Chairman,
Washington Policy & Analysis; Nuclear Energy Research Advisory
Committee, United States Department of Energy
Moderator: Henry Kelly, President, Federation
of American Scientists
5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
Session VI: Round-table Discussion
What needs to be
done now, and by whom or by what institutions, in order to ensure that
good science leads to good public policy that best serves the needs of
the American public? How can we change the current situation so that
scientists and scientific findings have more influence? How can
we improve the policy decision-making process?
Robert P. George, McCormick
Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program in
American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University; Member,
President’s Council on Bioethics
Bernard
Goldstein, Professor and
Former Dean, Univeristy of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
David Goldston, Chief of Staff,
House Committee on Science
Rush Holt, US Representative from New Jersey
Rick Piltz, Director, Climate
Science Watch; Former Senior Associate, US Climate Change Science
Program
Ellis Rubinstein, President and CEO,
New York Academy of Science
Philip M. Smith, Smith Science Policy & Management;
Former Executive Officer, National Research Council
Albert H. Teich, Director of Science & Policy
Programs, American Association for the
Advancement of Science
Ruth Wooden, President, Public Agenda
Moderator: Ira Flatow, Host, Talk of The
Nation: Science Friday; Science Correspondent, National Public Radio
