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SUMMARY:Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice - Profe
 ssor Stephen John
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:During the Covid-19 pandemic\, U.K. policy-makers claimed to b
 e "following the science". Many commentators objected that the government 
 did not live up to this aim. Others worried that policy-makers ought not b
 lindly "follow" science\, because this involves an abdication of responsib
 ility. In this talk\, I consider a third\, even more fundamental concern: 
 that there is no such thing as "the" science. Drawing on the case of adole
 scent vaccination against Covid-19\, I argue that the best that any scient
 ific advisory group can do is to offer a partial perspective on reality. I
 n turn\, this has important implications for how we think about science an
 d politics. 
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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