Podcast on Science Policy

By purepedantry on May 23, 2008.

Back in April, Kate and the other peeps at SCC hosted a panel discussion on science policy. It was co-sponsored by NYAS, and now NYAS has a podcast up of it. (The wonderful and elegant Kate hosts the whole bidness.) The topic was 'Mixing Science and Policy" and the panelists were Joanne Carney, David Goldston, Michael Stebbins.

It was a really good talk, and I have a couple comments:

-- I really like how Joanne plugged some of my dream fellowships doing science on the Hill such as the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship and the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. There are really a lot of good opportunities out there to get involved. Alas...someday...

-- I really like David's idea of strategic visibility: basically, that there are times when you want a scientific issue to be high profile and times when having it be low profile is a better option. A low profile can allow legislative fixes that won't happen on controversial issues.

-- Mike and those guys at FAS are f'ing ninjas. That whole bit about redoing the entire Homeland Security preparedness website to make it accurate is just genius. (Listen to the podcast and you will understand.)

Anyway, click here and you can listen the podcast (.mp3). (Thank you to the NYAS for setting this up.)

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Yay, Kate! =D Good podcast; a calm practical-minded contrast to all the ScienceDebates hubbub. There was an event here at Pacific Science Museum a few months ago, ostensibly on the topic of nanotech, but most of the group discussion afterward focused on the general intersection of science and policy. It was valuable, but less than it could have been because participants were asked to weigh in on the question of oversight of an emerging technology -- but without having first received any guidance on how the current process does and does not work.

I just came across this old post of yours and tried to listen to the podcast but it has sadly been taken down. Are you still interested in science policy and did you ever end up doing either of the AAAS fellowships? Do you know of any podcasts taht are dedicated to science and health policy issues?

Thanks and nice blog!

(You could email me at bluedvl007 at gmaildotcom if you want to talk about policy issues.)

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