Brown Professor to Explore Science Denial at January 6 MBL Falmouth Forum

WOODS HOLE – Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biology at Brown University will present a talk titled “Science Denial: From Anti-Vaxers and Climate “Skeptics” to the Ark Park.

Why it Continues and Why it Matters” takes place at the next Marine Biological Laboratory Falmouth Forum on January 6 at 7:30 PM in the MBL’s Lillie Auditorium in Woods Hole.

The event, sponsored by the MBL Associates, is free and open to the public.

While it might seem logical to attribute the prevalence of anti-science attitudes to religious dogma or factual unawareness, the roots of this problem, Miller says, go far deeper, and relate to popular perceptions of science and scientists.

In his talk Miller will consider multiple aspects of science denial, and suggest how the scientific enterprise and science education need to change to reclaim the cultural high ground in American society.

Miller is a cell biologist whose research focuses on the organization of biological membranes.

A devout Catholic and evolutionist, he is coauthor of leading high school and college Biology textbooks, and has written two books for general readers: Finding Darwin’s God, and Only a Theory – Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul.  

Miller earned his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and taught at Harvard University for six years before joining the faculty at Brown.

Miller has received a number of honors including the Gregor Mendel Medal from Villanova University and the Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution.

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