The Ethics of Science Communication: Don’t Dodge Ethics on your Communication Route to Success

Free admission & refreshments! Please register to attend. https://ethicsofsciencecommunication.eventbrite.ca

Join us for an enlightening talk on the presentation, and oftentimes, manipulation of information and data in scientific endeavours!

Fact or fiction, when communicating with friends or family, funding agencies, peer reviewers, or the general public: do you minimize your setbacks, deflect blame, bestow false praise, withhold essential data or information, withhold acknowledgements to those who helped you, or perhaps minimalize your ethics-stretching shortcuts in the interests of time, expediency, or self-interest?

Take care. Others will make life-altering decisions about you, decisions of which you may forever be unaware, decisions, for example, following a face-to-face interview or encounter, after reading your resume, after accurate or inaccurate hearsay “information” about you, after praise by a colleague or condemnation by an ill-wisher, after a glance at your Facebook page.

On the other hand, can you detect hidden agendas, persuasive propaganda, or alarming numbers hiding in plain view?

Dr. John Bandler will draw on successes and failures from both his technical and non-technical domains, and will comment on some monumental individual, corporate and government lapses, involving either manipulation of communication—or failure to heed—information.

Don’t dodge ethics on your communication route to success!

Hosted by McMaster WISE and SciGSA.

About John Bandler
McMaster professor emeritus John Bandler, OC, is an engineer, entrepreneur, innovator, researcher, artist, speaker, and author of fiction, including stage plays. He wrote and directed That The Multitude May Live. See YouTube, and other examples of his theatrical work such as Christmas Eve at the Julibee Motel. Some of his presentations and workshops on a variety of topics, including his 2014 TEDx McMaster U talk, are available on the internet. He has published more than 500 technical papers and contributions to books, won many professional awards, and pioneered the space mapping technology in 1993. In 1997, Hewlett-Packard acquired his company Optimization Systems Associates Inc. He is a Fellow of several societies, including the IEEE and the Royal Society of Canada. He has been honoured by a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal; appointed to Officer of the Order of Canada; and, in 2018, Professional Engineers Ontario honoured him with their OPEA Gold Medal. He mentors individuals for presentations, and co-organized the first ever 3MT® competition at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium in 2017, continued in 2018 and 2019, and planned for Los Angeles in 2020. He spearheaded McMaster’s first ever Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 3MT® competition in 2018, continued in 2019.