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CONFLICTED $CIENCE:
Corporate and Political Influence
on Science-Based Policymaking
July 12,
2004
Washington, DC
The International Trade Center
1300
Pennsylvania Ave. NW
(Federal Triangle Metro station on the orange and
blue lines)
| 7:45 |
Registration Begins |
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| 8:15 |
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Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:10 |
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Welcome - Michael F. Jacobson, Executive
Director, CSPI |
| 9:10-9:20 |
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Introduction - Merrill Goozner, Project
Director, Integrity in Science, CSPI |
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| 9:20-9:50 |
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS: |
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Carol Browner, former
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency |
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| 9:50-11:00 |
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Plenary Debate – "The Data Quality Act
and OMB Peer Review – Honest Evaluations or New Tools for
Manufacturing Doubt and Delay?" |
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Jim J. Tozzi, Board of Advisers,
Center for Regulatory Effectiveness v.
David
Michaels, Professor, Department of Environmental and
Occupational Health, George Washington University School of
Medicine and
Sean Molton, Senior Policy
Analyst, OMB Watch |
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| 11:00-11:20 |
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BREAK |
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| 11:20-12:30 |
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Breakout Sessions |
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Panel A – "Misusing Science To
Manufacture Doubt and Delay"
Eric Schaeffer, Executive Director of Environmental
Integrity and former Chief of Enforcement, Environmental Protection
Agency, on New Source Review
Richard W. Clapp, Professor
of Public Health, Boston University, on Dioxin
Rena
Steinzor, Professor, University of Maryland Law School and
Center for Progressive Regulation, on Mercury
David
Vladeck, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law
Center, on the Legal Response
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Panel B – "Corporate and
Government Suppression of Research"
Tyrone Hayes, Associate Professor, University of
California at Berkeley, on Industry Suppression of Academic
Research, on Atrazine
David Egilman, Clinical Associate
Professor, Department of Community Health, Brown University on
Industry Suppression of its own studies
David Lewis,
Research Microbiologist and former EPA scientist, on Government
Suppression of its own scientists |
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| 12:30-2:00 |
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LUNCH |
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Presentation of the Second Annual CSPI
Rachel Carson Award for Integrity in Science
Presenter: Arlie Schardt, Chairman, Environmental Media
Services
Awardee: Theo Colborn, co-author of Our Stolen
Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and
Survival? - A Scientific Detective Story, former Senior
Scientist with the World Wildlife Fund |
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| 2:00-2:20 |
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Plenary Address |
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Dr. Arnold S. Relman, Professor
Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine,
on Industry-Driven Science and the Corruption of Evidence-Based
Medicine |
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| 2:20-3:10 |
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Plenary Panel – "Science v. Commerce in
Medicine"
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Ralph I. Horwitz, Dean, Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine, on the Supplement Industry and PPA
David
Healy, Director of the Department of Psychosocial Medicine,
University of Wales, on Manufacturing Consensus: How Companies get
Experts Onside
Bruce M. Psaty, Professor, University of
Washington Medical School; on the Industry Efforts to Suppress Heart
Disease Research
Alan Goldhammer, Associate Vice President
for Regulatory Affairs, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
Association, on the Industry Response |
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| 3:10-3:20 |
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BREAK |
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| 3:20-4:30 |
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Breakout Sessions |
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Panel A – "Science Journals,
Science Journalism and Disclosure"
Shannon Brownlee, Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America
Foundation, on Failures of Medical Journals to Report Conflicts of
Interest
Ray Moynihan, Contributing Editor, British
Medical Journal, On Why Journalists Should Disclose Their Sources'
Conflicts of Interest
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Panel B – "The Real Junk
Science"
Michael Kowalcyk, Safe Tables Our Priority, on FSIS:
Statistical Manipulation of Data on Food-borne Illness
Diana
Zuckerman, President, National Center for Policy Research for
Women and Families, on Misusing Women's Health Research to Support
Industry and Ideology
Adam Finkel, Certified Industrial
Hygienist, Risk Analysis Expert, senior safety and health adviser,
on Occupational Safety and Health Administration (views do not
represent the agency)
Ronald Melnick, Senior Toxicologist,
National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, on The
Hormesis Thesis |
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| 4:30-5:25 |
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Final Plenary – "A Program for
Reform" |
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Moderator: Alden Meyer, Director
of Strategy and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists
Henry
Kelly, President, Federation of American Scientists on
Legislative Reform
Thomas McGarity, Professor, University
of Texas Law School, Center for Progressive Regulation
Jean
Fruci, Democratic House Science Committee staff on Federal
Advisory Committee Reform |
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| 5:25-5:30 |
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Concluding Remarks – Michael
Jacobson, CSPI |
Return
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