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Expanding the earned income tax credit. At this event hosted by the Aspen Institute. All right, good afternoon, everybody. And welcome. My name is moyne conway, Vice President at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Economic Opportunities program. And i am so delighted to welcome you to todays conversation in our working in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we do a lot of a variety of work to advance ideas that will help lower and med upincome americans. In the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans face and consider ideas that could make things better for working peopl ....
We are all waiting until we swing around to the dayside to get more images. This morning, we are getting more images more questions. Questions, what are you hiding . This does not seem to get people to emotionally respond. I want the month of my life act that that 2012 apocalypse was because i was getting calls from people who were frightened. Afraid the world was coming to an end. Bet theple would say, i world is not coming to an end but where can i go to see this astronomical can conjunction happened. There was nothing astronomically interesting happening on that date. That was made up. It is one of the reasons i stopped working with the history channel. , was one of the regular host but they would present a show i was doing about asteroids or possible life on mars from a scientific respect of and then they would have ancient aliens on right after it. Seriously. Right after it. And they would be presenting these things as equivalent. This was enough to make me stop working with the h ....
Buyology. And im the director for down syndrome at the medical school. Let me briefry introduce the subject. I want to you to imagine a world where they were accepted. Where nobody was deliberately underseeking to undermine these fact just because they stood to gain financetially buzz raising facts because they seem at odds with their religious beliefs. Huge numbers of americans simply dont believe facts people believing in the truth matter as lot not because it affects the truth but because whether or not we act based on truth or fiction matter as lot. This isnt a scientific issue. Its a political one. Todays panelists will address the thorny question of how to get people to believe facts even when they dont want to. So let me introduce the panelists in the order in which theyre going to speak. First is michelle fowler. Shes an astronomer and a science communicator. Shes been a regular host of the history channels the universe. National geographic the known universe and the United States , New York , Saudi Arabia , New Mexico , District Of Columbia , San Francisco , Alan Alda , Charles Darwin , Evan Pew , Barack Obama , Henry Johnson , Michelle Fowler , Albert Einstein , Neil Kumar , Neil Tyson , Carl Sagan , Geo Sciences , Penn State , Climate Change , Global Warming , Tea Party , End Next Week , Office Answering , Credit Card , Family Reason , Discovery Channel ,
Universe. National geographic the known universe and the Discovery Channels how the universe works. You can say shes narrowly focused on the universe. [laughter] richard ally is evan pew professor of geo sciences at penn state university. Hes one of the major figures worldwide in the area of Climate Change and is dedicated to educating the public about what is happening and what will happen. He taught me that for what man has done to the atmosphere not to have caused Global Warming the laws of physics will have to be wrong. Third is chip brulee longterm activists in the cause of human rights. Hes a democratic socialist and asbsolutist and he has a new book too close for comfort forget the tea party movement. Hes sorry. [laughter] leonard pip is a columnist for the miami herald. He has won the pultser prize on raise in ....
All right, lets get started. Let me remind you to turn off the sound on your cell phones. This is our number 3263, denial in the face of fact. I asked for a science panel, i got an antiscience panel. [laughter] tom so im tom blumen thatll. Im the former chair of molecular and Development Biology here in boulder. I am the director of the institute for Downs Syndrome at the medical school. Let me briefly introduce the subject. I want you to imagine a world where they were accepted. Where nobody was deliberately underseeking to undermine these facts just because they stood to gain financially or because they seem at odds with their religious beliefs. Huge numbers of americans simply dont believe facts, people believing in the truth matter as lot not because it affects the truth but because whether or not we act based on truth or fiction matter as lot. This isnt a scientific ....