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Andrea Bandelli is an informal science guy who has been working on  
projects that use online tools to encourage discussion of ethically  
complex issues.  A little googling shows his web site  
http://homepage.mac.com/bandelli/CV/, which has links to projects like  
BIONET, which focuses on life science issues.  His newest project is  
called DECIDE, and he is presenting at ECSITE.

Eric Siegel
Executive VP
    Programs and Planning
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
esiegel at nyscience dot org

On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:15 AM, Andy Lloyd wrote:

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> Lisa (et al)
>
> At the Centre for Life in Newcastle we are intending to try this  
> approach - we are a life-sciences focussed science centre set within a  
> group of genetics/fertility research groups (with ethics research,  
> biotech companies and other things on site - see www.life.org.uk/).   
> We want to increase the opportunity for debate and dialgue but, given  
> our context, I don't believe it is tenable for us to claim neutrality  
> for the science centre.  An exercise we will go through will be to try  
> and define our editorial poilicy (current ideas revolve around the  
> ideas of process and testability as being the driver to the ideas we  
> promote, but we aren't finished talking yet).  I'm not aware of many  
> people trying this, so I would love to know if anyone has (and how it  
> was received by the public).
>
> Andy
>
>
> __________________________________________
> From:   Lisa Jo Rudy <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:   Re: ethics and science centers - query
> Date:   Thu 14 Apr 2005 04:08 AM
>
> I was actually trying to get at the question of whether ethical
> examination of issues related to science and technology should be a
> part of the mission of ASTC institutions?
>
> I've seen exhibits in which visitors were encouraged to consider
> ethical issues (for example exhibits in which folks were asked to
> consider the different perspectives of rain forest stake holders
> relative to land use) -- but, with the exception of exhibits about
> cleaning up the environment, have never seen a museum take a particular
> stand.
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