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We live in a risky world: science can analyse and reduce - but also create risks. Scepticism has always been valued in the scientific process, but, post BSE, can public scepticism about government advice on medical issues actually cost lives? Whose job is it to explain current scientific views about MMR? Even if people understand the risks fully, will they always want to behave rationally, and should they be forced to do so? Speakers include: Helene Joffe, lecturer at UCL and author of Risk and 'the other'; Adrian Smith, formerly president of Royal Statistical Society; Peter Lilley, MP; and David Fisk, Chief Scientist, Dept. for Transport, Local Government and the Regions. In the chair is Daniel Glaser, scientist-in-residence at the ICA and senior research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.