NLM Special Lecture: Gender, Race and Power in Science

The National Library of Medicine will be hosting a special lecture by British science journalist Angela Saini in the Lister Hill Auditorium. Saini explores how prejudice can affect scientific research on race and gender and describes her efforts to uncover manipulation of evidence, abuse and wrongdoing by those in power, as well as the inadvertent and inappropriate use of race by mainstream scientific researchers in health and genetics. Drawing from themes in her two most recent books, “ Superior: The Return of Race Science ” and “ Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong ” , she will show why researchers need to be careful not to always conflate social gender and racial disparities with biological differences. Saini has a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University and is a former MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has written for The Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, and Science, and she regularly presents science programs on the BBC.Air date: 10/31/2019 10:00:00 AM
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