| Summary: | PANDEMIC PERSPECTIVES offers a critical examination of several key societal issues illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic through the prism of a wide array of international experts in immunology, epidemiology, biomedics, medicine, evolutionary biology, psychology, neuroscience, history, education, law, economics, business and more. Examples of such societal issues that are addressed in this film: -The need to rethink current educational practices -The future of scientific research -The challenges of making evidence-based public policy in an age of rapid information and misinformation -The widespread confusion about how science actually works- The importance of balancing basic and applied research -The implications for coherently addressing climate change -The tension between individual liberties and communitarian ideals -The need to critically asses the level of care in our society -The importance of looking at history during a time of crisis -The perils of nationalism and the necessity of thinking globally -To what extent the pandemic has revealed our true moral nature.
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