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SCIENCE POLICY, POLITICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

In the final talk from this series, Gottfried and Jasanoff take on the
distortion of scientific knowledge for political purposes and express
concern about environmental and other policies that ignore scientific
reality.


Speakers:
**Kurt Gottfried **
Co-Founder and Chair, Union of Concerned Scientists

**Sheila Jasanoff **
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/273/>

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