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Trottier 2024

Date: Monday, Sept. 23rd Time: 7:00 PM Location: McGill University, Leacock Building - Rm 132 (attached to the McGill Arts Building) - 855 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7

In Whom Do We Trust?

This is the age of the pandemic. And that is truly terrifying. But it is also the age of the “infodemic,” and that too has some chilling features. We are relentlessly bombarded by a tsunami of...

Longing for Longevity

Symposium Schedule Tuesday | October 22 Roundtable Session: 1:30pm - 3:00pm Moderated by Joe Schwarcz PhD, Director, McGill Office for Science and Society Participants:

Laughter Is The Best Medicine

19 Oct 2017

“Laughter is the best medicine!” That’s an old adage, maybe even dating back to the biblical era. The book of Proverbs in the Old Testament proposes that “a  merry heart doeth good like a medicine:...

Get Ready for the Trottier Public Science Symposium

16 Oct 2017

When John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost that the mind can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven, without realizing it, he was talking about the “placebo” and the “nocebo” effect. “Placebo”...

2015 TROTTIER SYMPOSIUM. A Question of Evidence: Vaccines, GMOs, and Cell Phones

Monday, September 28, 2015toTuesday, September 29, 2015

In the Information Age, how can you discern legitimate science from cherry-picked data, opinion posing as fact, association confused with cause and effect, bogus advice from self-appointed experts,...

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