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OSS 20th Anniversary Event: Talking Science in the Age of Fake News

Thursday, May 23, 2019 06:00to09:00
801 Sherbrooke St. W., Otto Maass Chemistry Building, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B8, CA
Price: 
FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Event is SOLD OUT. A recording of the event will be available on YouTube following the event. Be sure to follow us on FB and Twitter for updates!

Please join us the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Office for Science and Society (OSS)Ìýin marking their 20th anniversary!

David Harpp, Tomlinson Chair in Science Education, will take a look back at the OSS' last 20 years and how they became the first-ever University backed office dedicated to critical thinking and disseminatingÌýinformation based on scientific evidenceÌýin a world long before the term "fake news" even existed.Ìý

Following this retrospective,Ìý, Author ofÌýIs Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About EverythingÌýand star ofÌýA User's Guide to Cheating Death,Ìý, Director of the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ OSS,Ìý, National Health Reporter at The Globe and Mail, andÌý, Executive Director of the non-profit organizationÌýBad Science Watch, will each present a 10-minute "flash talk" describingÌýone main challenge they face in science communication today. This will then be followed by a panel discussion moderated by ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ OSS science communicator,Ìý.ÌýÌýÌý

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For further details, please visit the OSS 20th event page.

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