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Contact: Bruce Conley
Associate Director of College Relations
Phone: (605) 274-5526
Fax: (605) 274-4903
www.augie.edu
February 19, 2007
SIOUX FALLS – Why has science lost its credibility is a question retired chemist Edward S. Rogers will address when he speaks at Augustana on March 6.
Rogers’ talk, Economics and Politics vs. Science, begins at 7:00 p.m. in Gilbert Science Center room 100. His talk is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Sioux Valley Local Section of the American Chemical Society and Augustana’s Chemistry Department. Gilbert Science Center is located at the corner of 33rd Street and Summit Avenue.
Rogers’ presentation will examine areas of the world where science is being ignored and denied, areas like Lake Chad and the Aral Sea, with undeniably awful results to the future of the people in those areas. This complete destruction, says Rogers, resulted from the total avoidance of science. Unfortunately, he says, we are still following an economic/political system that often ignores the scientific evidence.
His talk will pose questions concerning the movement from this current system toward a science-based economy. He says this would be more likely to allow us to advance to the next century, instead of simply focusing all our efforts on the next quarter’s bottom line without thoughts to the associated environmental costs.
In his presentation, Rogers incorporates the works of Adam Smith, William Forster Lloyd, Garrett Hardin, Ian McHarg, the Sierra Club, E.O. Wilson, Jared Diamond, and Lester R. Brown.
Rogers has studied mathematics, music, and chemistry. He has worked for Accurate Metals Lab, Sinclair Research, Universal Oil Products, and Carus Chemical Company. He has 27 U.S. patents.