New Parallel Sessions Swine Flu, Defending the UK Science Media and Breakonomics

Three new sessions are now up on the programme timetable. On Wednesday AM the UK's Science Minister Lord Drayson will defend the UK science media against claims from Professor John Martin, one of the world's leading heart disease experts, that science journalists are like the greedy bankers who have sparked the economic meltdown. Wednesday PM sees a new session on the media's coverage of Swine Flu, was this another senseless scare story? Scientists and journalists at the heart of the story will argue it out. On Thursday Breakonomics asks the question would specialist science correspondents with their 'superior grasp' of probabilities, risk and mathematical modelling have covered the global financial crisis differently? Could a different kind of reporting really have saved the economy? See the full timetable for more www.wcsj2009.0rg/programme_timetable.php.