S3 Ep 4 - Dan Hicks on 'Public Scientific Controversies‪'‬ The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

In today’s episode we have assistant professor and philosopher of science, Dan Hicks, taking us through better understanding public scientific controversies.‘Public scientific controversies’ is a term Dan uses to capture a broad variety of controversies that involve both science and the public. This would include controversies around vaccines, genetically modified foods, medical research and climate change.In studying why controversies like these arise and persist, Dan has found our common ex...