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Jeffrey S. Lee Lectureship 2009 Lecturer
Lecturer: David Michaels, PhD, MPH, Director, The Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy; Research Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC Dr. Michaels directs the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (www.DefendingScience.org). He is the author of Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (Oxford University Press, 2008), which examines the product defense industry: scientists who manufacture scientific uncertainty in order to forestall public health regulation. An epidemiologist and former government regulator during the Clinton Administration, Dr. Michaels served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health, responsible for protecting the health and safety of workers, neighboring communities and the environment surrounding the nation’s nuclear weapons facilities. In that position, he was the chief architect of the historic initiative to compensate nuclear weapons workers who developed cancer or lung disease as a result of exposure to radiation, beryllium and other hazards. He also oversaw promulgation of DOE’s Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Rule. In 2006, Dr. Michaels received the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for his work on behalf of nuclear weapons workers and for his advocacy for scientific integrity. He is also the recipient of the 2009 John P. McGovern Science and Society Award given by Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. Dr. Michaels’ lecture will discuss the practice of manufacturing doubt as a means of challenging established safety facts, challenging regulatory efforts and creating controversy in an effort to mask dangerous practices by manufacturers and polluters. |
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Lecture Title:
Doubt is Their Product: Manufactured Uncertainty and Public Health