I'm really pleased that the American Association for the Advancement of Science has focused on this critical (and dismaying) subject at its annual science and technology policy forum. I'm slightly less pleased that they're taking away my PowerPoint (I may fall to the floor twitching during my panel from withdrawal), but perhaps I'll manage to be entertaining even without the usual visual props. Anyway, here's the panel lineup:
Moderator: Eli Kintisch, Reporter, Science
Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Dan Vergano, Reporter, USA TodayJoann Rodgers, Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Chris Mooney, Contributing Editor, Science Progress; and co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (to be released July 2009)
My role is going to be to focus on the role of science in the new media, where, as some may already know, I'm kind of a self-loathing blogger. I love it, I'm addicted to it, I'll probably never stop doing it; but at the same time, I nevertheless have come to wonder whether it's an adequate replacement for the loss of science in the traditional media....
