BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250904T040453EDT-66646KnvpA@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250904T080453Z DESCRIPTION:Speakers\n\nSteven Goodman\, Professor of Medicine and co-found er and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (MET RICS)\n Richard Harris\, Science Correspondent\, National Public Radio\n Phi lippe Ravaud\, Professor of Epidemiology\, Paris Descartes University\n\nD escription\n\nThe past decade has witnessed growing skepticism of scientif ic research\, from two very different sources. On one hand\, scientists th emselves have turned a skeptical eye on the reliability and utility of sci entific research. Meta-researchers – scientists who study science – have e xposed serious\, systemic problems in health research\, including inadequa te or poor study design and analysis\, perverse professional and economic incentives\, and publication practices leading to bias and waste. On the o ther hand\, ‘merchants of doubt’ including tobacco companies\, climate-cha nge deniers\, and anti-vaccinationists mobilize pseudo-skepticism to incre ase uncertainty about health research in the service of economic self-inte rests or preconceived political ideologies. The election of Donald Trump\, who has nominated climate-change and vaccine skeptics to senior positions in his administration\, indicates the power of anti-science in contempora ry North America.\n\nThis symposium\, which features leaders in meta-resea rch and a respected science journalist\, will ask and answer a key questio n raised by these two trends: how do we expose and improve on bad research practices\, without abetting the forces of anti-science? \n\nRSVP REQUIRE D\n\n \n\nA symposium sponsored by ºÚÁÏÉç’s Biomedical Ethics U nit and Dept. of Epidemiology\, Biostatistics\, and Occupational Health\n S upported by a Gift from the ºÚÁÏÉç Medicine Class of 1970\n DTSTART:20180319T170000Z DTEND:20180319T200000Z LOCATION:Faculty Club\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E5\, 3450 rue McTavish SUMMARY:Science and Skepticism: Critiquing Bad Research in an Anti-Science Era URL:/oss/channels/event/science-and-skepticism-critiqu ing-bad-research-anti-science-era-285300 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR