Science and Politics after the Pandemic

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English - October 01, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.2 MB - ★★★★ - 256 ratings
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Contributor(s): Professor Neil Ferguson, Laura Spinney | How has the relationship between science and politics been affected by the COVID-19 crisis and are we seeing a post-populist return of expertise?
Neil Ferguson (@neil_ferguson) is Director of the MRC Centre of Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London. His research has informed the response to COVID in a number of countries, including the UK
Laura Spinney (@lfspinney) is a science journalist and author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World.
Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme.
The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.
This event forms part of LSE’s Shaping the Post-COVID World initiative, a series of debates about the direction the world could and should be taking after the crisis.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSECOVID19