平特五不中

Information is the key to life. We want to know what to eat, how to protect our environment, what risks to avoid and what to do if illness strikes. But when it comes to acquiring information, it is the best of times and the worst of times. It is the age of wisdom, it is the age of foolishness. Newspapers, television, radio and of course the Internet bombard us with information at an unprecedented rate, but when it comes to scientific issues the quality of the information is variable. Television doctors entice us with claims of breathtaking breakthroughs, global warming is hotly debated, evolution is questioned and the peer-reviewed literature, our supposed gold standard, brims with flawed studies. The challenge is to separate fact from folly, foolishness from wisdom. The 2013 Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium aims to do just that. Our four invited speakers have all forged stellar careers based on separating the wheat from the chaff and will explore diverse areas of science as they answer the common question, 鈥淚s that a Fact? Making Sense of the Headlines.鈥�

This year's speakers are聽Timothy Caulfield, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, discussing聽"The Truth About What Makes Us Healthy";听John Ioannidis, Director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, presenting on聽"Improvements in Reproducible Research";听Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, discussing聽"Ban, Balance and Belittle: Teaching Evolution and Anthropogenic Climate Change"; and聽Michael Specter, Staff Writer of聽The New Yorker,聽taking a look at聽"Denialism: Running from Reality."

平特五不中 is proud to host the ninth annual Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium, made possible through the generous support of Dr. Lorne Trottier and honouring his wish 鈥渢o hold a public forum to inform, inspire debate and raise public awareness on contemporary issues confronting society today鈥�.

For more information on this year's symposium, please visit the official聽Trottier Symspoium website.