| When: |
March 16, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. |
| Where: | UGLC (corner of Wiggins and University) in room #106, UTEP |
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Dr. Devra Lee Davis, author, world-renowned epidemiologist and a leading researcher on environmental health and chronic disease will be speaking at UTEP on Wednesday March 16th 2005. Dr. Davis has published a new book When Smoke Ran Like Water , chronicling air pollution and it’s effects in the US and Great Britain.
A recent interviewer wrote the following about Dr. Davis’ book;
“When Smoke Ran Like Water is far more than ‘an indictment of air pollution,’ as one of the National Book Award judges characterized it. For one, the book ranges into a variety of environmental topics, from global warming to falling sperm counts in human males. As much as anything, it is a book about how science works - and often fails - in the service of public health and the environment. "There are many reasons for these failures," Dr. Davis writes, “corporations often thwart science's best efforts, the public often doesn't want to know, but scientists themselves are also to blame. Sometimes we fail to ask the right questions, or we ask them in such a way that the answers remain unobtainable. Even worse, sometimes the right questions are asked and even answered, but the news remains locked away in someone's private files or is written so abstrusely, and published so obscurely, that it might as well not exist at all."
More information to come…
excerpt from
http://www.sierraclub.org/scoop/devra_davis.asp |
