Guest Thinkers

The Associated Press reports that outgoing MA Gov. Mitt Romney has appointed Aaron D’Elia, a state budget director with no formal scientific background, to be executive director of the Massachusetts […]

Parita Shah from the Center for Genetics and Society has an interesting op-ed in the Mercury News reflecting on the campaign tactics used by both sides this last election cycle […]

A few readers know that I originally hail from outside of Buffalo, New York, home to some of the best hunting and fly fishing in the country. Recently my younger […]

The recent retreat of Arctic sea ice is likely to accelerate so rapidly that the Arctic Ocean could become nearly devoid of ice during summertime as early as 2040, according […]

There’s nothing new about politicians using entertainment outlets to promote their presidential aspirations. In 1960, both John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon appeared on Jack Parr’s Tonight Show. Nixon even […]

BBC NEWS CAPTION: “There is heated debate about the ethics of using stem cells”What’s wrong with this picture and caption? As the BBC reports the horrifying discovery that healthy babies […]

For those closely watching Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential prospects, and what a Romney presidency might look like in terms of science-related policy questions such as stem cell research, abstinence education, […]

This week, Time magazine names all of us as “Person of the Year.” According to Time’s editors, in this Web 2.0 era of digital media, average netizens are transforming society […]

ScienceBlogs readers are hipsters. So I just wanted to add to the buzz about the new video for the U2 single “Window in the Skies.” Definitely an instant classic. Watch […]

The Washington Postprofiles Rudy Giuliani’s prospects for the GOP nomination. If “America’s Mayor” has to bolster his support from conservatives, on which social issues is it easiest for Giuliani to […]

The Washington Post chronicles Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to frame his environmentalism in “public health” terms. The Governerator explains his position in ways only he can. For example, he compares California’s […]

After being named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, I’ve updated my CV. Frank Rich in the Sunday Times glows with similar faux enthusiasm for the mag’s cyber-cheerleading, as does […]

In one of the strongest declarations I’ve seen from a major newspaper editorial board, the San Jose Mercury News calls on Congress in 2007 to enact major legislation to deal […]

The game is afoot to define the presidency of Gerald Ford. The dominant narrative from the mainstream media is that Ford was the “Great Healer,” an extinct species of bi-partisan […]

In the 1976 presidential campaign, Ford used political ads featuring endorsements from Evangelical leaders to counter Jimmy Carter’s image of piety and to turn the Baptist governor’s famous Playboy interview […]

In more than 20 articles over the past year, a team of New York Times reporters and editors have detailed many of the intersections between energy policy and the environment. […]

This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that Americans are using the Internet to alter the nature […]

This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that Americans are using the Internet to alter the nature […]

Over the weekend, I appeared on a stellar panel at the National Association of Science Writer’s meetings in Baltimore that featured Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences, […]

In recent weeks, I’ve weighed in on You Tube as an emerging and important strategic communication tool. (Go here and here.) Now the NY Times adds this to the discussion […]

Overlooked in the Ted Haggard scandal is that the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals was also one of the leaders of the “creation stewardship” movement, framing the […]

Last week I noted the use of the “social progress” frame as articulated by Michael J. Fox in campaign commercials running this election season (go here and here.) Dems are […]

For his documentary Root of All Evil?, Richard Dawkins was granted inside access to Ted Haggard’s Colorado Springs mega-church, and he sits down for an interview with Haggard. “This place […]

Buzz is building for Mel Gibson’s Dec. 8 release of Apocalypto[trailer]. The film’s actual plot is still a bit of a secret. Judging by the title and the focus on […]

An unlikely coalition of environmental groups and Evangelical associations are promoting the new documentary “The Great Warming,” which defines the issue in terms of a moral duty to future generations […]

Genetech is running ads in the NY Times, The New Yorker, and on their Web site that feature patients offering testimonials framed in social progress terms. The campaign is similar […]

Readers of FRAMING SCIENCE who work in downtown DC or on Capitol Hill may want to take an extended lunch break tomorrow to check out this American Meteorological Society briefing […]

Last weekend, I was at the annual meetings of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, where I met up with longtime collaborators Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard. Along with […]

A few readers have written in to ask whether tomorrow’s AMS presentation will be recorded. My answer is “I don’t know,” but I will let everyone know if and when […]

It used to be that candidates posed with babies, and George W. Bush still does, especially when using photo-ops to frame instantly for the public that stem cell research is […]