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Skeptics: "The Scientific Revolution that Wasn’t"
Thursday 26 Feb 2015
19:00 to 21:00
Winchester Discovery Centre, Jewery Street, Winchester
United Kingdom

Tonight's talk by the Winchester Skeptics is titled "The Scientific Revolution that Wasn’t" and is led by Alice Bell.

Meet in the front cafe bar area from 7.00pm. The talks for Winchester Skeptics start at 7.30pm in the main lecture theatre and there is a £3 suggested donation towards speakers expenses at the door.

This is the tale of a scientific revolution that failed. Most scientific revolutions are about politics in some way, not just the nature scientists look at, but this was especially political in scope. Science, these revolutionaries argued, had lost its way. Science had become too focused to the whims of senior staff and their cronies, allowing its energies to be applied to war and environmental destruction. If the public didn’t like science, so the argument went, maybe they had a point. In the shadow of the still-blazing light of the atomic bomb, with increasing concern over chemical and biological weapons as well as an emerging environmental crisis, science needed to take a good, hard look at itself. Elitist and stuffy, science had let itself fester a bit. The time had come to imagine a new way of doing science. They were the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, BSSRS, or Bizrus to their friends. Active and reasonably well-known throughout the 1970s, they fell apart in the 1980s and are largely forgotten today. This is their story.

Alice Bell is a freelance journalist, specialising in the politics of science and technology. She writes about innovation for How We Get to Next and climate change for the Road to Paris. She's a science policy blogger for the Guardian and columnist for Popular Science UK. She used to be an academic, teaching science communication at Imperial College. Before that she set fire to bubbles for the Science Museum for a living.

Event Link:	www.meetup.com/CafeSci-Basingstoke/events/219758758/
Venue Link:	winchester.skepticsinthepub.org

Contact:	Winchester Skeptics in the Pub, Bob Clifford (info@cafesci-basingstoke.org.uk)
How to find us:	Meet in Discovery Centre Coffee Bar at 7.10pm
Event Fee:	£3 on the door

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