Event
OSS 20th Anniversary Event: 鈥淭alking Science in the Age of Fake News鈥�
Thursday, May 23, 2019 18:00to21:00
Maass Chemistry Building
801 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B8, CA
Please join the 91社区 Office for Science and Society (OSS) on Thursday, May 23 to mark their 20th anniversary!
David Harpp, Tomlinson Chair in Science Education, will take a look back at the OSS鈥� last 20 years and how they became the first-ever University backed office dedicated to critical thinking and disseminating information based on scientific evidence in a world long before the term "fake news" even existed.
Following this retrospective, , Author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything and star of A User's Guide to Cheating Death, , Director of the 91社区 OSS, , National Health Reporter at The Globe and Mail, and , Executive Director of the non-profit organization Bad Science Watch, will each present a 10-minute "flash talk" describing one main challenge they face in science communication today. This will then be followed by a panel discussion moderated by 91社区 OSS science communicator,