Life Sciences and the 21st Century
Life Sciences, a major issue for the 21st Century
Progress in scientific knowledge and its applications in industrial products create new hope every day in the fight against disease, malnutrition and pollution in the world.
But this progress also gives rise to more and more questions, concerns, and even opposition, at times violent, from citizens or opinion leaders.
Such complex and sensitive issues require transparency and consultation between the main parties involved: citizens, scientists, industrialists and public decision-makers.
These are many different worlds, which do not always trust or listen to each other, thus rendering dialogue difficult. None of the three communities have a monopoly of truth over the others.
The positions of each are undeniably legitimate and respectable, but they only take into account one perspective of a multi-dimensional reality.
Through its composition, bringing together Science, Society and Industry, the World Life Sciences Forum provides a three-dimensional vision.
BioVision’s objective is to facilitate the confrontation – at times heated – between these different approaches and to ensure that the expression of differences does not mean sterile confrontation.
