Greg Conko Speaks: Does Science or Politics Prevail in Comparative-Effectiveness Review

Please register for this event online at: http://www.aei.org/event/100300  

Friday, September 24, 2010, 9:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI

1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Public policy debates are increasingly based on matters of science, from issues such as energy and climate change to health and food safety. Yet the results of these debates vary, with good legislative outcomes when the available scientific evidence is used objectively and bad policy choices when it is interpreted subjectively in pursuit of a preordained policy agenda. This “bloody crossroads” of science and policy will be the subject of an all-day discussion at AEI.

9:00 a.m.               

Registration and Breakfast

9:30                        

Introduction:            

KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI

9:35                        

Panel I: Problems with the United Nations’ model of climate science in the service of policy

Panelists:                 

MAUREEN CROPPER, Resources for the Future

ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University

W. DAVID MONTGOMERY, Charles River Associates

Moderator:              

ROGER SEDJO, Resources for the Future

10:45                        

Panel II: Does science or politics prevail in comparative-effectiveness review?

Panelists:                 

GREGORY CONKO, Competitive Enterprise Institute

MARK HELFAND, M.D., Oregon Health & Science University

RICHARD MILLER, M.D., Stanford University 

Moderator:              

BENJAMIN ZYCHER, AEI

12:00 p.m.                        

Lunch

12:15                        

Panel III: Regulation of genetics

Panelists:                 

MISHA ANGRIST, Duke University 

PAUL KIM, Foley Hoag LLP

DIETRICH STEPHAN, Ignite Institute for Individualized Health

Moderator:              

JON ENTINE, AEI

1:15                        

Panel IV: Politics and science in the academy

Panelists:                 

JOHN E. CALFEE, AEI 

CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS, AEI

Moderator:              

KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI

2:15                        

Concluding Address:                  

KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI

2:30 p.m.

Adjournment