Event date: October 29, 2015
Event time: 5:30 p.m. reception, 6:00 p.m. lecture
Many people are confused about the safety of vaccines, the reality of climate change, and other matters. Doctors tell us that vaccines are safe, and climate change is real, but how do they know that? And how are we to make sense of competing claims? In a recent Presidential Debate, Donald Trump rejected the position of Ben Carson, a doctor, and insisted that vaccines should be more widely spaced. Professor Naomi Oreskes of Harvard University argues that we should trust science, and explains why.
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