Rejuvenating Public Sector Science [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
Do federal scientists fear for their jobs for speaking the truth? What about corporate-funded science? Increasingly, powerful institutions have tried to curb scientific independence and integrity regarding issues as wide-ranging as public health, the environment, the economy, and government energy policy. To address these concerns, the Integrity in Science project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest [3] is sponsoring a July 11 conference in Washington, DC. Titled "Rejuvenating Public Sector Science," the conference will feature sessions on the climate crisis [4]; protecting and empowering scientists at federal agencies; insulating clean energy research from special interests; and how the scientific commumunity should handle conflict of interests. (CMD's research director, Sheldon Rampton, will moderate the global warming panel.) For more information and to register, call (202) 777-8348 or visit http://cspinet.org/integrity/conflictedscience_conf.html