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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

for the seven days starting April 2nd, 2008.'m Steve Merski. This week on the podcast,

do we need a bill of rights for scientists? Some researchers think we do, and that was the subject

of a press conference by the Union of Concerned Scientists that I attended in Boston in February.

I interviewed Francesca Griffo,

senior scientist at the UCS,

and the director of the UCS's

Scientific Integrity Program.

We'll hear from her,

and we'll hear some clips from the actual press conference,

and Scientific American Editor John Rennie

will preview the April issue,

plus we'll test your knowledge about some

recent science in the news. First, here's a couple of minutes from Kurt Godfrey's statement

at the press conference. He's professor of physics emeritus at Cornell, co-founder of the

UCS and the chair of the UCS's board of directors.

Two of our first three presidents, Adams and Jefferson, had a keen interest in science.

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