Sense about Science UK: Become an Ask for Evidence ambassador

[Andy]

Sense about Science is recruiting 20 new volunteer ambassadors around the UK to lead the Ask for Evidence campaign.

Ask for Evidence is a public campaign that holds powerful figures, companies, organisations and public bodies to account. It helps people challenge claims in news stories, adverts and policies and ask for the evidence behind them. It’s making sure a discussion on the evidence happens when it really matters.

Becoming an ambassador is an opportunity to encourage others in your region to Ask for Evidence by giving talks, running activities and talking with community groups about issues that matter to them.

Our ten existing ambassadors have already reached over 50,000 people and over 1500 people have asked for evidence on issues ranging from health supplements, speed limits, contraception and education to alcohol, IVF and pollution.

http://askforevidence.org/articles/ask-for-evidence-ambassador-launch

 

[Sly Saint]

Courage for sound science wins John Maddox prize
"Simon Wessely win award for standing up for science in the face of attacks and death threats."
"The prize is awarded by Nature and the London-based science advocacy charity, Sense About Science, with support from the Kohn Foundation in London."

https://www.nature.com/news/courage-for-sound-science-wins-john-maddox-prize-1.11760

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Sense_About_Science

 

[DokaGirl]

Ironic.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Maybe someone should email Alex Clegg and ask if they are looking for someone interested asking for evidence for therapist-delivered treatments for medically unexplained symptoms.

I might have a conflict of interest.

 

[Andy]

Ironic.

Yup. I posted more for the irony factor than for the possibility that one of us, should we bother to apply, might be accepted.

 

[DokaGirl]

@Andy

Following from you comment re "irony factor", a thread on the irony of ME might be an idea. (Not that I am suggesting you do this thread.)

 

[rvallee]

Courage for sound science wins John Maddox prize
"Simon Wessely win award for standing up for science in the face of attacks and death threats."
"The prize is awarded by Nature and the London-based science advocacy charity, Sense About Science, with support from the Kohn Foundation in London."

https://www.nature.com/news/courage-for-sound-science-wins-john-maddox-prize-1.11760

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Sense_About_Science

That award will age about as badly as Henry Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[JaimeS]

Wessley served on Sense About Science's advisory council and later they gave him an award for bravery.

What a remarkable coincidence.

 

[Andy]

Wessley served on Sense About Science's advisory council and later they gave him an award for bravery.

What a remarkable coincidence.

Perhaps his council chair was dangerous? Ready to collapse at a moments notice? That's surely worth an award!

 

[JaimeS]

Perhaps his council chair was dangerous? Ready to collapse at a moments notice? That's surely worth an award!

It wobbled, @Andy . We have to be sensitive to these trials & tribulations.

 

[Andy]

It wobbled, @Andy . We have to be sensitive to these trials & tribulations.

The horror! No wonder he got a knighthood!

 

[BruceInOz]

https://www.nature.com/news/courage-for-sound-science-wins-john-maddox-prize-1.11760

"[Shi-min] Fang was attacked by thugs...

Wessely ... has been reviled by many ...
"

So being disliked is like being attacked by thugs?