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SUMMARY:Why Trust Public Experiments? - Prof. Simon Schaffer (HPS)
DTSTART:20141028T181500Z
DTEND:20141028T191500Z
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CONTACT:Mary Fortune
DESCRIPTION:The talk discusses the problems in winning public trust for sc
 ientific claims through public demonstrations\, and explores how the histo
 rical background of these kinds of trials has changed. It is often claimed
  that public sciences have unfortunately lost authority\, and in cases suc
 h as anthropogenic climate change or genetic modification it is now unusua
 lly difficult to establish proper acknowledgment of facts and evidence. So
 me histories of the sciences and their publics may help clarify what is at
  stake in these controversies.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre
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