Upcoming Speakers on Science Misinformation

There are some great experts coming up in my course at the University of Washington, Emerging Issues in Science Communications: Publication, Misinformation, and the Media, starting with Naomi Oreskes tomorrow, 4/28. Paid subscribers can observe the presentations by following the instructions below.

Upcoming speakers:

• 4/28 Naomi Oreskes

  • Harvard Professor and author of Merchants of Doubt

  • Topic: Disinformation and the Merchants of Doubt

• 5/7 Bruce Alberts

  • Former President of the National Academy of Sciences and author of definitive textbook on molecular cell biology

  • Topic: Distilling Science- Expert Panels

• 5/11 Walker Bragman

  • Founder of the Accountability Journalism Institute.

  • Topic: The Role of the Media in Disseminating and Controlling Misinformation

• 5/21 Mallory Harris and Kate Starbird

  • Kate Starbird is co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington.

  • Mallory Harris is a Post Doctoral fellow at the University of Maryland and a former affiliate of the CIP at UW who has done key research about perceived expertise in the anti-vaccine community on social media.

  • Topic: The Role of the Internet and Social Media in the Dissemination and Credibility of Scientific Misinformation on the Internet

• 5/28 Joe Bak Coleman

  • Behavioral scientist studying collaborative decision making, who is currently affiliated with the Klein Beckman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and the Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior in Konstanz, Germany

  • Topic: Combatting Misinformation on the Internet

• 6/2 Peter Hotez

  • Founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also Director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and Endowed Chair in Tropical Pediatrics.

  • Topic: Misinformation and the COVID Vaccine