Speaker: Dr. Franz Adlkofer, former Executive Director, VERUM Foundation for Behaviour and Environment
It is well known that findings in conflict with industrial policies require decades of research and discussion until they are finally accepted. One example is the area of cell phone radiation research. The assertion made in the 1950s that there are no effects of radio frequency electromagnetic fields besides the thermal ones, as such an assumption contradicts the laws of physics, is until today successfully defended by the cell phone industry on purely economic...
A conversation with David Gergen (Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School) and Lawrence Lessig (Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, Harvard Law School) about Prof. Lessig's new book Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop it.
Harvard Book Store is glad to welcome Harvard law professor LAWRENCE LESSIG for a discussion of his new book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress.
In an era of ballooning corporate campaign expenditures, unleashed by the Supreme Court in Citizens United, trust in our government is at an all time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress–and that our Republic has been lost.
Using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, Republic, Lost not only makes clear how the economy of influence...
co-sponsored by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
"New Strategies for Health Promotion: Steering Clear of Ethical Pitfalls"
This two-day conference, one in an annual series devoted to ethical issues in population and global health, will examine the ethics of new strategies for health promotion currently under development in the United States and in developing countries. The goal of the conference is to identify potential ethical pitfalls of these interventions so that ethical problems and controversies do not reduce...
Conflicts of interest have emerged as a core ethical challenge in business, government, law, medicine, and academia, among others, undermining public confidence and breeding public cynicism. Typically, under the constructs of traditional economics, conflicts of interest are thought about purely as an issue of...