The Town Square
CCI Panel: Who should you Trust?
What we think,
we become.

- Siddartha Gautama,
the Buddha

CCI Panel, Spring 2009:

Who Should You Trust? Science, Expertise, and Ethics in Democracy.


Geoffrey Baym Assoc. Professor of Media Studies, UNCG
“Science Goes Pop: Stephen Colbert and the Postmodern Problem of Expertise”

Roy Schwartzman Professor of Communication Studies, UNCG
“Who Counts as an Expert? Construction of Trust in Promoting Nano- and Biotechnology”

Karl Schleunes Professor of History, UNCG
“Experts in the Service of Evil; German Science and National Socialism”

Sharon Bracci Assoc. Professor of Communication Studies, UNCG
“We Are All Bioethicists Now”

M. Berube Professor of Communication, North Carolina State
Public Communication of Science & Technology Project
“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet: Synthetic Biology”