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INTEGRITY IN SCIENCE: Corporate and Political Influence On Science-based Policymaking, July 12, 2004, Washington, DC

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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)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
 
7:45   Registration Begins
  Room: Amphitheater Foyer
 
8:15   Continental Breakfast
  Room: Amphitheater Foyer
 
9:00-9:10   Welcome – Michael Jacobson, PhD., Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest
  Room: Amphitheater
 
9:10-9:20   Introduction - Merrill Goozner, Project Director, Integrity in Science, Center for Science in the Public Interest
  Room: Amphitheater
 
9:20-9:45   KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
  Room: Amphitheater
Carol Browner, J.D., Former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
 
9:50-10:50   Plenary Debate"The Data Quality Act and OMB Peer Review – Honest Evaluations or New Tools for Manufacturing Doubt and Delay?"
  Room: Amphitheater
Moderator: Jocelyn Kaiser, Writer, Science Magazine

Panelists:
Jim J. Tozzi, Ph.D., Board of Advisors, Center for Regulatory Effectiveness
v.
David Michaels, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University School of Medicine  and
Sean Moulton, Senior Policy Analyst, OMB Watch

 
10:50-11:05   BREAK
 
11:05-12:10   Breakout Sessions
  Panel A"Misusing Science To Manufacture Doubt and Delay"
Room: Amphitheater

Moderator: Sylvia Lowrance, Former Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency

Panelists:
Eric Schaeffer, J.D., Executive Director of Environmental Integrity and former Chief of Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency, on the new Maximum Achievable Control Technology rules
Richard W. Clapp, D.Sc., Professor of Public Health, Boston University, on Dioxin
Rena Steinzor, J.D., Professor, University of Maryland Law School and Center for Progressive Regulation, on Mercury
David Vladeck, J.D., Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, on the Legal Options for Preventing Delay
 

  Panel B"Corporate and Government Suppression of Research"
Room: Atrium Ballroom A

Moderator: Chris C. Mooney, Freelance Journalist

Panelists:
Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of California at Berkeley, on Industry Suppression of Academic Research
David Egilman, M.D., MPH, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health, Brown University, on Industry Suppression of Industry Research
David Lewis, Ph.D., Research Microbiologist and former EPA scientist, on Government Suppression of Science
Michael Kowalcyk, Safe Tables Our Priority, USDA: Statistical Manipulation of Data on Food-borne Illness
 

 
12:15-1:45   LUNCH
  Presentation of the Second Annual CSPI Rachel Carson Award for Integrity in Science
Atrium Ballroom B

Presenter: Arlie Schardt, Chairman, Environmental Media Services
Awardee: Theo Colborn, Ph.D., 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

After Lunch Speaker"Industry-Driven Science and the Corruption of Evidence-Based Medicine"
Arnold S. Relman, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine

 
1:45-2:00   BREAK
 
2:20-3:10   Plenary Panel"Science v. Commerce in Medicine"
  Room: Amphitheater

Panelists:
Ralph I. Horwitz, M.D., Dean, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, on The Supplement Industry and PPA
David Healy, M.D., Director of the Department of Psychosocial Medicine, University of Wales; "Manufacturing Consensus: How Companies get Experts on their Side"
Bruce M. Psaty, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, University of Washington Medical School, on "The Messenger Under Attack" in heart disease research
Alan Goldhammer, PhD., Associate Vice President for Regulatory Affairs, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association, on The Industry Perspective

 
3:15-4:15   Breakout Sessions
  Panel A"Science Journals, Science Journalism and Disclosure"
Room: Atrium Ballroom A

Moderator: Merrill Goozner, CSPI

Panelists:
Shannon Brownlee, Fellow, New America Foundation
Mark Seeley, General Counsel, Reed Elsevier NV/ plc
Ray Moynihan, Contributing Editor, British Medical Journal
Nils Bruzelius, Science Editor, The Washington Post
 

  Panel B"The Real Junk Science"
Room: Amphitheater

Moderator: Peter Infante, former Director Health Standards Program, Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Panelists:
Diana Zuckerman, Ph.D., President, National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families, on Misusing Women's Health Research to Support Industry and Ideology
Adam Finkel, Sc.D., Certified Industrial Hygienist, Risk Analysis Expert, Senior Safety and Health Adviser, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (views do not represent the agency), on Workplace Health Abuses
Ronald Melnick, Ph.D., Senior Toxicologist, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, on The Hormesis Thesis
Martin Hoffert, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, New York University, on Global Warming Skeptics

 
4:15-4:30   BREAK
 
4:30-5:25   Final Plenary"A Program for Reform"
 

Room: Amphitheater
Moderator: Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy, Union of Concerned Scientists

Panelists:
Henry Kelly, Ph.D., President, Federation of American Scientists, on Legislative Reform
Thomas McGarity, J.D., University of Texas Law School, Center for Progressive Regulation
Jean Fruci, Ph.D., Democratic House Science Committee staff on Federal Advisory Committee Reform
Richard Condit, J.D., General Counsel, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, on protecting government scientists

 
5:25-5:30   Concluding RemarksMichael Jacobson, CSPI
  Room: Amphitheater
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