Science is a beacon of objectivity and neutrality in a world plagued by politics, emotions and cultural influence… right? Not quite. Through individual conscious and unconscious biases, as well as widespread systemic issues and the very realities of being human, science is innately biased. This talk will use historic case studies to examine the reasons and ways that bias is intrinsic to the scientific process. It will also discuss how we can work towards objectivity (and why we have to), in our own lives and on a societal level, even if it can never be truly reached.

Biographie : Ada McVean is a science writer and masters student from Montreal. She received her Bachelor of Science, with a double major in bio-organic chemistry, and gender, sexuality, feminist and social justice studies from McGill University in 2019 and is currently doing her masters in the Damha Research Group at McGill making anti-CRISPR aptamers.
Ada has been working with the McGill Office for Science and Society as a science communicator since 2016 and has been a freelance science writer since 2019.
Follow her on Twitter: @AdaMcVean