Tue Nov 10 · 4:30pm
The Fight for Facts: Evidence in an Age of Doubt — Helen Pearson and Naomi Oreskes
Helen Pearson, senior editor at Nature, a Knight Science Journalism fellow and author of Beyond Belief, joins Naomi Oreskes, Harvard historian of science and author of Why Trust Science?, for a lecture on the rise of evidence-based thinking, the power of scientific consensus, and the forces that work to distort, undermine and dismiss facts. MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the Knight Science Journalism Program present.