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How do you activate an otherwise disinterested Republican base on the issue of global warming? As we argued in our Policy Forum article at Science, two possible frames are to […]
I’m late to this news feature that appeared two weeks ago at the journal Cell, as others here at ScienceBlogs have already posted on the article. Quoted below is the […]
Monday evening at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Chris Mooney and I gave our first DC-area Speaking Science 2.0 presentation. We have details as pictures […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18578882.jpg]I’ve got my DVR set to 830pm EST tonight in order to record in high definition the world television premiere of Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. This […]
UWisc-Madison is joining Harvard and Scotland’s University of Edinburgh by investing in a new stem cell research facility that promote cross-disciplinary collaborations. Tonight, in conjunction with a speech by Edinburgh […]
On May 3, former House Science Committee chair Sherwood Boehlert gave the distinguished AAAS Carey Lecture. It recently came to our attention that Boehlert spent a significant chunk of the […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/v/hPdCkUiHCg4]In a segment from the recent Frontline special “Hot Politics,” GOP pollster Frank Luntz explains his 1997/1998 memo that became the playbook for how conservatives like President Bush and […]
Cities like Cambridge, MA, Madison, WI and Berkeley, CA aren’t the only places in the world vying to brand themselves as 21st century centers of innovation. This week, the BBC […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/v/ed08siB6BOE]Mary K. Miller of San Francisco’s The Exporatorium has launched a new blog called The Accidental Scientist. The blog is focused on introducing readers to the ways in which […]
This spring in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
The Discovery Institute have a blog post up commenting on our WPost Outlook article. Given this latest response to our Framing Science thesis, I wanted to take time out from […]
NPR’s Richard Harris reports on the UN National Security Council’s attempt to recast global warming as really a matter of national and global security. Trinifar has all the details and […]
To be honest, I hadn’t seen the online program Bloggingheads.tv before. But today they offer a pretty substantive discussion of our Framing Science thesis. Apparently the host agrees with us. […]
The transcript of the interview I did last week at NPR’s On the Media is now available. In the interview, I restate exactly what we argued first at Science and […]
A small yet very vocal contingent of critics continue to ferociously attack our Framing Science thesis. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left wondering why. Here are two observations posted […]
If anyone should understand how to effectively communicate with the broader public about teaching evolution in schools, it’s Dr. Steve Case. He’s assistant director of the Center for Science Education […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18413997.jpg]The Point of Inquiry podcast is produced by the Center for Inquiry-Transnational and averages 60,000 listeners a week. In this week’s show, host DJ Grothe and I engage in […]
How do you play on the fragmented media system and the miserly nature of the public to persuade Americans to oppose major policy action on climate change? Conservative columnist George […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18415505.jpg] It’s definitely been a busy week trying to keep up with a seismic blog debate. I’ve tried to weigh in where I can and so has Chris Mooney. […]
In an article in the Sunday Outlook section of the Washington Post, we advance the arguments offered in our Science Policy Forum commentary. We also respond directly to some of […]
Over at Chris Mooney’s Intersection, there is a lively discussion going-on of our Washington Post article. I thought this comment was especially interesting, from scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson, director of Flock […]
Bora continues to play a very important role in synthesizing and interpreting the whole strange chorus that seems to be going on in reaction to our Framing Science thesis. In […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18416170.gif]I have a Policy Forum article appearing this week in the journal Science that is likely to spark a major debate. Co-authored with Chris Mooney and titled “Framing Science,” […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18415553.gif]Our Policy Forum article at Science has generated a monster blog discussion, one that is almost too much to keep up with. I continue to try to keep a […]
AAAS has provided me with an author’s referral link that offers free access to our Policy Forum article. You can find the link in the left sidebar, just under the […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18412633.jpg]Back in February, I chronicled the problems that the year’s first IPCC report had in achieving wider media and public attention. In response, I argued that in today’s fragmented […]
[rebelmouse-image-imported /2010/08/18415306.gif]How difficult is it for a well known political figure to break through the perceptual screens of partisanship, along with the ingrained frames of reference that citizens have developed […]
Over at the blog Nanopublic, Dietram Scheufele, a professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin, has posted a very useful discussion of our Science Policy forum article.Scheufele, one of […]
Over at The Intersection, Chris Mooney has a post up about the complete absence of U.S. news coverage dedicated to the record six tropical cyclones that have hit Madagascar, killing […]