ScienceandthePublic

       The Morgan lecture series is a presentation designed to bring influential names to App State in an effort to encourage research and engagement in the scientific community. The speaker this year was Geraldine Richardson who spoke about international engagement and women in science. She told the crowd stories about her travels to other countries and passion to help science departments in colleges abroad find funding to teach properly. Some colleges she described didn't have even basic tools to perform experiments instead just having to read about them. In Cambodia some of the schools lack the funding to even pay their teachers requiring children who show up to pay instead. She was very passionate about having american colleges work towards improving the funding of those programs through partnerships.        She also discussed women in science. Historically science has been dominated by males and cultures around the world didn't support women...

        Science is a method of discovery and source of insight that everyone should be able to easily embrace, however modern discourse has many questioning the motives and expertise of scientists. Groups have grown that center around concepts like the flat earth or autism from vaccines and it is scientists duty to correct the misinformation that exists. While it would be ideal to assume all scientists are benevolent with their intentions many may be motivated by money or power to lie and falsify their findings further confusing the public. Because of this scientists should attempt intellectual outreach to fix any problems that have risen about facts.         The Group that spoke to us in the seminar was a great example of the dialogue that scientists should have with the general public. They demonstrated their passion with Dr. Bellemer particularly standing out in this regard as anything he said regarding his research was genuinely ecstatic. T...