STREAMING VIDEO ARCHIVES

Powerpoint Presentations
 

FOSEP's Library

Politicization of Science: A Perspective
Dealing with Scientific Uncertainty in Policymaking
Frankenfood or Fearmongering: The Science and Politics of Genetically Modified Food
Stem Cells: The Science, Policy, and Possibilities
Embryos and Cloning in Perspective

Other online video resources:

Center for Science and Technology Policy Research - Keeps a video archive of all guest speakers.
Living with the Genie - Video proceedings from a 2002 event that explored the state of the scientific and technological enterprise and the implications for controlling and shaping that enterprise as we move into the new millennium.
UC Berkeley School of Journalism - A number of their lectures cover science & technology policy issues.
Genetics and Public Policy Center (Johns Hopkins University) - "Custom Kids? Genetic Testing of Embryos." January 4, 2004

Real Video

April 7, 2005

Dealing with Scientific Uncertainty in Policymaking
 

Roger Pielke, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Studies
Director, Center of Science and Technology Policy Research
University of Colorado, Boulder

Uncertainty is ever present in decision making. But even as scientists typically have sophisticated understandings of uncertainty itself, such understandings are infrequently accompanied by a corresponding sophistication in decision making in the face of uncertainty. This talk will discuss a range of experiences in dealing with scientific uncertainty in policymaking to suggest how the scientific community might more effectively contribute useful guidance on important policy issues characterized by fundamental uncertainties. Dr. Pielke's talk will emphasize both the use of science in decision making, but also decisions that are made about science, typically under an expectation that the results of resulting research will inform decision making. Consequently, issues of values, ethics and politics are inescapable when one confronts scientific uncertainty in policy making.
 

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Frankenfood or Fearmongering?
The Science and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods
 

Michael Rodemeyer, J.D.

Executive Director,
Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology
 

Last year, American farmers grew more genetically-modified (GM) crops than ever before. About 75% of the processed foods in U.S. stores are estimated to contain ingredients derived from GM crops.  Concerns have been raised about food safety and environmental risks, the ethics of seed  patenting,
and economic impact of GM crops on small farmers. The controversy has spilled
over into the international trade arena, leading to a U.S. trade complaint
against the EU, where consumer opposition to biotech foods is strong.

Few technologies have generated so much global confusion and conflict as
GM food. Why is this technology so controversial? The lecture will
review the current state of science on GM crops and discuss the key role
of values in shaping public attitudes and the different political responses to
the technology around the world.

Real Video

GMO Links and Resources

PUBLIC FORUM

Stem Cells:
The science, policy, and possibilities
 

EXPERT PANEL:
Science, therapies, and research challenges
Lawrence Goldstein, Ph.D. -  Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Chair of Public Policy, American Society for Cell Biology

Ethical considerations
Jeffrey Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Director, Center of Bioethics, University of Minnesota

Stem cell policy:  What are our options?
Anna Mastroianni, J.D., M.P.H. -  Assistant professor of Law and Public Health Genetics and Greenwall Faculty Scholar on Bioethics, University of Washington.

Download program (pdf)

Real Video (Compliments of the Seattle Channel)

STEM CELL NEWS, LINKS, AND LEGISLATION

May 14, 2004

Embryos and Cloning in Perspective:
The History of the Controversies

Jane Maienschein, Ph.D.

Regents' Professor
Director, Center for Biology and Society
Arizona State University

Real Video - Part 1

Real Video - Part 2
 

Abstract:
When a new scientific advance breaks through the news barrier and enters public awareness, as cloning Dolly or culturing stem cell lines has done, questions arise. We often hear a range of views from enthusiasm to outrage. Careful reflection to assess what is really at issue and what, for that matter, is really new is woefully rare. Surely, it often seems, we are on the brink of a new cliff, about to plunge off or to soar away to new heights. Yet history's lessons teach us that momentary novelties often turn to routine and that the cliff really is often just a bump in the road. In vitro fertilization, for example, was hotly contested in the late 1970s but is now both a routine treatment for infertility and a potential source of pre-implantation embryos for research. To put our current debate in perspective, we will look at the history of embryo research with a focus on cloning, underlying epistemological assumptions, and bioethical discussions. What regulations - if any - are needed to be sure that we don't plunge off the cliff this time? In the end, Maienschein contends, we can learn a lot from history.