Week 14

(WEEKS 12-14 UNIT ON SCIENCE ADVICE TO DECISION MAKERS)

April 23 - Expertise, Democracy, Professional Roles and Responsibilities

Pielke, Jr. R. A. 2007. The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK).

DEMOS, 2006. The Received Wisdom.

Sarewitz, D. 2004. How science makes environmental controversies worse, Environmental Science & Policy 7 (2004) 385-403.

Optional:

Krimsky, S. and L.S. Rothenberg, 2001.  Conflict of interest policies in science and medical journals: Editorial practices and author disclosures, Science and Engineering Ethics, 7:205-218.

Calandra, B. 2002. Politicking for Science: Scientists in politics may lose their lab expertise, but they gain a passport to world debates. The Scientist 16(12):53.

Lasswell, H. D., 1970. Must Science Serve Political Power? American Psychologist 25:  117-125.

NRC, 1995. Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy Press, Quote from Chapter 1.