Science in the Media

[PsychoSerenity]

[Feral_Punctuation]

Is he talking to Boris Johnson?

[PsychoSerenity]

I don't know if anyone here saw this when it was on (I didn't) but it fits perfectly in this thread. Enjoy and/or discuss!

[charlou]

Interesting stuff, not least the ethical aspect.

Was listening to a related BBC Reith lecture on ABC Radio National on my way to work last night ... The Scientific Citizen

Lecture 1: ''The Scientific Citizen'

In the first of this year's Reith Lectures, entitled Scientific Horizons, Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College and Astronomer Royal, explores the challenges facing science in the 21st century. We are increasingly turning to government and the media to explain the risks we face. But in the wake of public confusion over issues like climate change, the swine 'flu vaccine and, more recently, Iceland's volcanic ash cloud, Martin Rees calls on scientists to come forward and play a greater role in helping us understand the science that affects us all.

Aside: The presenter's comment about humans being at the top of the evolutionary chain is a typically egocentric view.

[Trolldor]

Well, to be fair, we are the 'top of the evolutionary chain' in so far as we've outcompeted every other species on the planet so far.

That doesn't mean we are the pinnacle of evolution by any means.