Douglas Allchin, NABT 2021

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VISUALS

"Science & Social Justice" [title page]
1. stereotype: science as a fortress of facts?
   
   Criminal Justice
2. DNA forensics
3. Innocence Project
4. systematic causes of wrongful convictions [Innocence Project]
5. flaws of eyewitness testimony [Innocence Project]
6. Jaythan Kendrick, released after 25 years for a murder he did not commit [New York Post]
7. the value of justice informed by the facts of science
   
   Environmental Justice
8. Bhopal -- environmental risk higher for impoverished [Economiic Times]
9. 2008 coal ash spill, Kingston, Tennessee
10. dumped in Uniontown, Alabama
11. how lead pipes of Flint, Michigan
12. unequal environmental risks -- for poor neighborhoods
13. geographical inequities of risk reflect economic injustice
14. higher risks for non-White populations [Collins, 2016, Figure 3]
15. environmental justice for Uniontown residents
    
    COVID-19 and Health Justice
16. focus on covid testing
17. disparities in deaths [Kaiser Family Found.]
    
    Science and Values?
18. facts and values -- How do they relate?
19. values from nature?
20. Two errors: naturalistic fallacy and naturalizing error: Epistemic and moral justifications are separate.
21. Science informs how values are realized in particular cases.
    
    Open Cases (for Discussion)
22. Is consuming meat, with its disproportionate environmental impact, a prerogative of the rich? An act of injustice? resource use of various protein diets [World Resources Inst.]
    See: "The Ecology of Meat" (American Biology Teacher, Aug. 2021)
23. agricultural biotech -- biased towards large and capital-intensive farms -- a form of unjust investment in scientific research?
    See: Science without Shiny Labs" (American Biology Teacher, Jan. 2019)