Chemicals
are everywhere: in the dye in our clothes, the laminating
on our CDs, the preservatives in our food. Should
we be concerned about living 'toxic lives'?
Speakers:
Bill Durodié Bill Durodié
is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence
Studies at King's College, London. He is author of Poisonous
Dummies: European Risk Regulation after BSE.
He also acted as an adviser to the UK Prime Minister’s
Cabinet Office Strategy Unit study on The Costs
and Benefits of Genetically Modified Crops.
Todd Seavey Todd Seavey edits
HealthFactsAndFears.com, the webzine of
the American Council on Science and Health, which
is dedicated to promoting sound science and debunking
unfounded health scares. He is a Phillips Foundation
Journalism Fellow and has written for People,
the New York Post, the National Review,
Reason, the New York Press and TechCentralStation.
He has worked in advertising and was an associate
producer for ABC News correspondent John Stossel.
John Maule Dr John Maule is
director of the Centre for Decision Research at
Leeds University. He is a senior lecturer in Management
Decision Making at Leeds University Business School.
Maule is a chartered psychologist, and was one
of a group of four European academics invited
to set up and run the European Association for
Decision Making in 1993, serving on its inaugural
executive board and editing its Newsletter from
1993 to 1997.
Professor Jim Bridges Jim Bridges is
Professor of Toxicology and Environmental Health,
and Dean for International Strategy, at the University
of Surrey in Guildford, England. He is the author
or co-author of over 300 research papers and reviews
in the fields of toxicology, drug metabolism,
public health and methods of chemical analysis.
His primary current research interests include
risk assessment methodology and the health risks
involved in waste management.
chair: Josie Appleton Josie Appleton
writes about politics and culture for spiked.
She is author of Museums for 'The People'?,
and has contributed to publications from the Spectator
and BBC History Magazine to Museums
Journal and Bolivian Times. She co-organised
the May 2002 spiked conference After
11 September: Fear and Loathing in the West.
