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Hurry! Early Bird Registration ends May 16!

Meet with activists, scientists, and academics in our nation's capital to discuss the diminished budgets, political interference, and declining morale that plague regulatory science. Brainstorm ways to shore up public sector science and revivify the environmental and public health protections that rely on a strong scientific foundation.

Join us at a daylong event that will forge an agenda for independent, regulatory science and protecting public sector scientists from political meddling and corporate influence. Speakers will include:

• Anthony Broccoli, IPCC participant and Rutgers University professor of atmospheric science
• Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist, National Center for Conservation Science and Policy
• Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, U.S. National Institutes of Health
• Jim Furnish, Forest Service Deputy Chief under the Clinton Administration
• William Hirzy, Executive Vice President, Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Union
• William Hubbard, former Associate Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
• David Michaels, Director, Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy, author of Doubt Is Their Product
• Rick Piltz, Director, Climate Science Watch, formerly with the US Climate Change Science Program
• Lynn Scarlett, Deputy Secretary of the Interior
• Ken Zweibel, former director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Diana Zuckerman, President, National Research Center for Women & Families

Sessions will include:

• Tackling the Climate Crisis: Unleashing Government Research
• When Regulators and the Regulated Collaborate: What Are the Rules?
• Protecting Public Sector Scientists
• Setting the Comparative Effectiveness Agenda: Should Industry Have a Say?
• Empowering Science and Scientists at Federal Agencies
• Clean Energy — Do Special Interests Drive the Agenda?
• Endangered Species Protection in a Hostile Climate
• Reducing Conflicts of Interest on Advisory Committees – Shortage of Unconflicted Scientists or Failure to Loook?

Register now at http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=606569

Registration:
General: $200 before May 16/$250 after May 16
Non-profits, educational institutions and government agencies: $99 before May 16/$109 after May 16
Students: $30
Press: Free

Accomodations for out-of-town registrants are available at the Marriott Metro Center, 775 12th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. Hotel Rate: $215.00 (Single/Double) + applicable taxes (14.5%). To make your reservations, call the hotel directly at 202-737-2200 or 800-228-9290 by Thursday, June 19, 2008 and mention the "Integrity in Science Conference."

Conference co-sponsors include:

Beyond Nuclear
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Center for Progressive Reform
Climate Science Watch (GAP)
Earthjustice
Edmonds Institute
Endangered Species Coalition
Government Accountability Project
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
OMB Watch
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
The Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy
Union of Concerned Scientists

PAST CONFERENCES

July 24, 2006, Washington, D.C.
Mini Conference: Government Advisory Panels: Fair and Balanced?
Transcript

July 12, 2004, Washington, D.C.

• By Event
• By Speaker
• Related Articles

July 22, 2003, Washington, D.C.

• The Agenda
• Speaker bios, abstracts, recommendations and more
• Article on the 2003 Conference.
  (Reprinted with permission from Elsevier (The Lancet, 2003, Vol. 362, 2003, pp. 302-3)
  http://www.thelancet.com