STS Special Event. Beyond the Passive Voice: A Roundtable Discussion of Oreskes & Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization

The roundtable will use this science-based fiction warning of impending climate catastrophe to open a discussion of how experts have responded, and ought to respond, to the widely perceived politicization of policy relevant science. Is it time to abandon the pose of disinterested observer on which scientists’ credibility and authority supposedly has been founded?