Bloody Crossroads II: Science and Public Policy

Thursday, November 03, 2011 | 8:45 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

AEI, Twelfth Floor 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036

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Both scientific realities and political pressures must influence the formulation of public policies, generally, and regulatory policy, in particular. These very different sets of constraints inevitably conflict to some degree, and the policy outcomes that result are not necessarily those most consistent with analytic rigor. This inherent conflict of science and politics will be the subject of the second-annual "Bloody Crossroads" conference at AEI.

Agenda

8:30 AM
Registration and Breakfast

8:45 AM
Introduction:

KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI

9:00 AM
Panel I: The Science and Politics of Risks
Panelists:
SUSAN DUDLEY, George Washington University
PAUL RUBIN, Emory University
MIKE LEGGETT, CropLife America
DAVID WALLINGA, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Moderator:

CHRISTOPHER DEMUTH, AEI

10:30 AM
Panel II: Is Science-Based Regulation an Oxymoron?
Panelists:
HENRY MILLER, Stanford University
BRIAN MANNIX, George Washington University
DAVID GOLDSTON, Natural Resources Defense Council
FRANCESCA GRIFO, Union of Concerned Scientists

Moderator:
GREGORY CONKO, Competitive Enterprise Institute

11:50 AM
Lunch

12:25 PM
Panel III: STEM Education

Panelists:

CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS, AEI

ALICE POPEJOY, Association for Women in Science
DAVID GEARY, University of Missouri
JAMES BROWN, STEM Education Coalition

Moderator:

KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI

2:00 PM
Panel IV: Conflicts of Interest

Panelists:
TOM STOSSEL, Harvard Medical School
RANDY LUTTER, Resources for the Future
DANIEL CARLAT, Tufts University
DAVID ORENTLICHER, Indiana University

Moderator:

SALLY SATEL, AEI

3:20 PM
Concluding Remarks:
KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI

3:30 PM
Adjournment

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AEI Participants

Christopher
DeMuth

Christopher DeMuth was president of AEI from December 1986 through December 2008. Previously, he was administrator for information and regulatory affairs in the Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration; taught economics, law, and regulatory policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; practiced regulatory, antitrust, and general corporate law; and worked on urban and environmental policy in the Nixon White House.
Phone: 2028625895
Email: cdemuth@aei.org
Assistant Info
Name: Keriann Hopkins
Phone: 2028625897
Email: keriann.hopkins@aei.org

Kenneth P.
Green

Kenneth P. Green has studied energy and energy-related environmental policy for nearly 20 years. An environmental scientist and policy analyst by training, Green’s recent studies include the efficacy of green-jobs programs, drivers of oil and gas prices, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the embedded energy costs in consumer goods, and resilient policies to address the risks of climate change. He has just published his second supplemental textbook, “Abundant Energy,” a concise guide to energy and energy policy intended for a college audience. In addition, Green has testified before regulatory and legislative bodies at the local, state and federal levels, including many times before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was also a designated expert reviewer for two reports by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Phone: 202-862-4883
Email: kgreen@aei.org
Assistant Info
Name: Elizabeth DeMeo
Phone: 2028624876
Email: elizabeth.demeo@aei.org

Sally
Satel

Sally Satel, M.D., a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, examines mental health policy as well as political trends in medicine. Her publications include PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001); The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006); When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Organ Donors (AEI Press, 2009); and One Nation under Therapy (St. Martin's Press, 2005), coauthored with Christina Hoff Sommers.

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Phone: 202-862-7154
Email: ssatel@aei.org

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Christina Hoff
Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers, a former philosophy professor who taught ethics, is probably best known for her critique of late-twentieth-century feminism. She is also known for her extensive writings, among them Who Stole Feminism? (Touchstone Books, 1995), The War Against Boys (Touchstone Books, 2001), One Nation Under Therapy (St. Martin's Press, 2005), and The Science on Women and Science (AEI Press, 2009). Her textbook, Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, a bestseller in college ethics, is currently in its ninth edition. Her new book Freedom Feminism—Its Surprising History and Why it Matters Today will be published in spring 2013 by AEI Press. A new and revised version of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming our Young Men will be out in August 2013 (Simon and Schuster).

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Phone: 2028627180
Email: sommers22@gmail.com
Assistant Info
Name: Caroline Kitchens
Phone: 2028625820
Email: Caroline.Kitchens@aei.org