sheldon sheldon -- [inaudible] [applause] >> it's a real pleasure to be moderating this panel, and my job is to simply put forth a question of conversation so we can get started quickly. first of all, let me introduce the panel members. to my immediate right is -- nelson, who has written the black panther party and the fight against medical discrimination to -- [applause] to her right is samuel k. roberts who has written "infectious fear: politics, disease and the health effects of segregation." [applause] to his right is jonathan metzell who has written "the protest psychosis: how schizophrenia became a black disease." [applause] and last but not least to his right, harriet washington whose book, "deadly monopolies: the shocking corporate takeover of life itself and the consequences for your health and our medical future." please give her a welcome. [applause] so i'm going to start the conversation among us by first asking what mythologies did we all learn from writing our books that we would want to share with the audience today and discuss amongst ourselves? i'm going to start with three myths that i learned from writing "genetic justice" which was really about forensic dna. you know, when you watch all these crime programs on tv, dna rules, it seems. so these are the three myths that i learned. first of all, myth number one, that dna profiles are like fingerprints. not true. very different. myth number two is that dna evidence is infallible. also not true. it's not infallible for prosecutions, and it's not infallible for exonerations. myth number three, clerking dna profiles is race neutral. that's also a great myth. so let me turn now to allandra, and maybe you can tell us what some of the myths were that you discovered in your work, "body and soul." >> good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon, harlem. thank you. thank you for the introduction, sheldon. so i guess mine are more three truths than three myths. i begin my book, "body and soul," with the sentence health is politics by other means which means to suggest that when we're talking about issues of health and science that we can be talking about test tubes and laboratory benches, and, you know, advanced scientific research, but we're also talking about contests over challenges to resources over health care access over access to scientific information, health education and the like. so that's one truism. the second is that the civil rights tradition, the black freedom tradition, the black protest tradition was always a health activist tradition and and a health politics tradition. so we can think back to marr cuts garvey's unia organization which had a cadre of nurses called the black cross nurses. we can think back to the powerful and brave fannie lou hamer who talked on the stoop about being sick and tired of being sick and tired and gave us the poignant euphemism mississippi

this is sheldon lu from the health department. sheldon, he actually was here when they did a recent health inspection, i understand, and alicia is the district health inspector. here is their score, it was 98 down from 100. 98 is fantastic. how many restaurants in the city have scores of 100. >> we don't have a lot because we have a new program that is similar to other programs in the state of california where there's a, b, c grading, we have a number grading here in san francisco. so, therefore, it's a brand new program, we are trying to get with our operators to participate to do things the same way we do and we will have things, i would say about 10 percent or maybe 15 percent of places are 90 or above. we expect that to be higher as they get used to our scoring system of what is really hazardous, what is not as hazardous and what is low hazard. high hazard you get points off, fairly large pipbts off. next one would be called moderate, small things like a door closed. we'll seeing how it works right now. if things work well, the state

sheldon. we need to teach people we're not sheldon and there's more to offer.and i continue ever want to hear, again, i hear it all the time that girls can't do math. if the boys won't like me if i'm smart. we not just center to encourage the girls but the boys. i think it's a lack of good culture image of who technical people really are. >> i would like that add something to that. my mother was the only female engineer out of 900 engineers which she first started working there. one out of 900. i asked her once, i said, an offhand comment. i said you probably had a lot of dates while you were working there, didn't you? she said no. i think she had that same problem like guys didn't want to date her because she was so smart or something. that's my guess but i don't really know. she would never tell you. >> i wish i could tell you that cute guys change the subject or start talking to my friend when i told them i was a physicist. >> two-part question. has your play been published? so it can be produced elsewhere across the country? and two, has there been any movi

sheldon. we need to to teach people we are not sheldon and there's a lot more to offer. i don't ever want to hear again and i hear all the time that girls can't do math and boys won't like me if i am smart. we don't just encourage the girls but the police. i do think lack of good cultural image of who technical people really are. >> i would like to answer that. my mother was the only female in junior out of 900 engineers at rocketdyne, one out of 900. i asked her once, mate and offhand comment, you probably have a lot of dates when you were working there, didn't you? she said no. i think she had that same problem, guys didn't want to date her because she was so smart. that is my guess but i don't really know. she would never tell me. >> how many really few guys change the subject or started talking to my friends let told them i was a physicist. >> two part question. has your play been published so it could be produced elsewhere across the country and has there been any movie interest? >> the play is not published with the professional theatrical publishing company like s

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