Guest Speaker: Kevin Elliot

Guest Speaker: Kevin Elliot

When:
October 21, 2016 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
2016-10-21T15:00:00-04:00
2016-10-21T17:00:00-04:00
Where:
530 South Kedzie Hall
368 Farm Ln
East Lansing, MI 48823
USA
Cost:
Free
Guest Speaker: Kevin Elliot @ 530 South Kedzie Hall | East Lansing | Michigan | United States

Professor Kevin Elliott, Lyman Briggs College, Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, and Department of Philosophy,
Michigan State University

Values in Science: How to Throw Out the Bathwater and Keep the Baby

The scientific community has been grappling with the concern that many research results are unreliable, and some areas of privately-­funded R&D have come under particularly severe criticism. While it is tempting to respond by trying to exclude personal, social, and commercial values from science in an effort to maintain objectivity, I will argue that this is a mistake. Instead, I will explore how three criteria— transparency, reproducibility, and critical review—can be used to help promote objective research results in both the public and private sectors without excluding values from science.

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