Significant Hazards - The Somerville Dna Debate

Creator: GALILEO STUDIOS

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Deals with a public and political debate over the building of a DNA Lab in Somerville, a densely populated blue-collar city bordering on Cambridge and Boston. Portrays the citizens and aldermen struggling to understand the new complex technology and the scientists strugglng to explain it and their belief that it poses no hazard to the community. Stresses the importance of communication between scientists andcitizens.