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Science and the Public
Lecture
'Heinz Haber
Heinz Haber
Wednesday, September 12th, 1984, 7:00 p.m.
Redoutensaal
Media reporting about science and technical studies (In cooperation with the Association of Austrian Industrialists, Upper Austrian Branch.)
About the Lecture:
"The public has a democratic entitlement to be informed about the current results of science and technique, and here the classical 'popular' science will not be sufficient, but we will need the instrumentarium of a 'public' science, including two aspects: - The obligation of a democratic citizen to inform himself about the questions of science and technique prevailing at the given moment, in order to sharpen his democratic judgement and his ability to criticize.
- But above all: The obligation of the scientists and technicians to transmit sense and results, and above all - as far as they are foreseeable – the consequences of their work to the public in a generally understandable language.
The walls of the ivory tower of science must be torn down, and this is not a task to let completely to the judgement of the journalists. Scientists and journalists—the latter having access to the media have both a share in the increasingly important commitment of morality and responsibility in the diffusion of science in the public."
Heinz Haber
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