Scientific Fraud to be Topic of UB Lecture

BUFFALO, N.Y. - "Scientific Fraud in American Political Culture: Reflections on the Baltimore Case and the Investigative Powers of the Government" will be the topic of the first talk in a new lecture series, "The University and The World," presented by the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

Nationally known author Daniel Kevles, Ph.D., who has written extensively about issues in science and society, past and present, will deliver the lecture at 8 p.m. Oct. 28 in Room 225 of the Natural Science Complex on the UB North Campus.

It will be free and open to the public.

The Baltimore case was one of several involving allegations of scientific fraud that commanded high public attention during the 1980s. Congressman John Dingell held a number of hearings on scientific fraud, and the media latched onto these allegations as evidence of scandal in high places.

Kevles is Koepfli Professor of Humanities at the California Institute of Technology and director of the university's Program in Science, Ethics and Public Policy. His essays and articles have appeared in both the scholarly and popular press, including The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

The "University and the World" lecture series highlights issues of broad intellectual and public concern, bringing to UB prominent scholars from different fields to address common problems. It is supported in part by the John W. Cowper Visiting Lecture Fund.