Public Engagement on Genetically Modified Organisms When Science and Citizens Connect: Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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4 Cultural and Political Contexts
4 Cultural and Political Contexts
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Do we have the right to alter things sociopolitical and cultural contexts differ in different that God has created in nature? areas of the world, so the concerns about the Source: Based on Brossard, workshop presentation, slide adoption of genetic modification technology differ.
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Strategies for widely available evidence on risk and related facts to engaging the public in discussion about scientific quiet dispute about what those facts are even when issues should take the differences into consideration, the evidence directly speaks to it." Kahan refuted the she suggested. Because societal discussions about idea that the science-communication problem can be GMOs are so multifaceted and complex, "there is attributed to public science illiteracy, public distrust potential for polarization," she concluded.
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To help scientists to navigate it is us vs them.' " Effective science communication this terrain, he developed a set of guidelines for is using the information that we have about how experts who have to engage with the public and people come to know what they know to make sure policy-makers; it was published in his book, The that we get the benefit of all we know as the result of Honest Broker.20 The work details different modes science, Kahan said. of engagement and draws four main conclusions Genetically modified foods do not fall into the about roles and responsibilities when scientists category of a polluted science-communication engage with decision-makers and the public: environment, Kahan said.
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However, he added that tell you what your options are." even those dietary guidelines are not as "pure" as Some have argued that a science communicator they might seem. The USDA dietary guidelines that does not want to be involved in politics include meat, but "you do not have to have meat for exemplifies a fifth role in which scientists can a healthy diet." The information that the pure engage with policy-makers.
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W When people treat wicke problems a though e ed as they are tame pro oblems, two e effects can occcur. First, H SCIEN INTERSECTS WITH POLICY HOW NCE scienntists often re on the def ely ficit-model appproach to Pielke desscribed sever types of sc ral cience issues.
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He identified what to do in the face of uncertainty is a policy four types of policy and science intersections: a question, Goldston explained, and the decisions policy question masquerading as a science question, become value questions. Policy-makers often use a science question from policy-makers when broad scientific uncertainty as a distraction when policy consensus exists in the scientific community, a decisions are difficult, he added.
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Available data show that labels Goldberg described the role that he played in give consumers impressions that may not be crafting the arguments against GMO labeling in scientifically true, Hallman said. For example, using California's Proposition 37.22 He argued against a threshold approach frames GMOs as posing a mandatory labeling because in his view it reflected problem when its concentration is above some poor policy.
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For example, farmers will legitimate to have a warning for genetically plant fewer genetically modified crops, so whatever modified foods or foods that contain genetically benefits farmers and the environment might have modified ingredients and about the role of the received from using them will be eliminated. That scientist in such a debate.
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Goldston asked the panel to consider what indicated that they did not know how natural or they believe to be the appropriate amount of social scientists can contribute to discussions about regulation and how science informs that Snow how much regulation of GMOs is appropriate. answered in brief that it is not sufficient to have no Goldston remarked that sometimes saying that you regulation.
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