Appearing as the cover story for the October issue of The Scientist, I’ve teamed up with my colleague Dietram Scheufele to pen a 4,000 word feature that expands on the […]
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I’m back in DC after an all too short trip to Minneapolis. Chris Mooney and I flew in to speak at the annual meetings of the Association for Reproductive Health […]
Philosopher Paul Kurtz has been an influential mentor to me and he remains a major inspiration. Back in 1997, Kurtz hired me to work at the Center for Inquiry-Transnational as […]
In a cover story at this week’s NY Times magazine, Gary Taubes digs deep into the world of epidemiological research on diet and health. It’s an important topic to call […]
Ira Flatow has a new book out chronicling his award winning interviews at NPR’s Science Friday. Flatow appeared on NPR’s Diane Rehm show yesterday to talk about Present at the […]
Gallup has released a cross-national polling analysis that challenges the conclusion that Muslim extremism is at the heart of support for terrorism, that terrorism derives from a rejection of Western […]
This fall, I am traveling to many different cities and institutions to talk to a diversity of groups about new directions in science communication. Below is an updated lineup with […]
For scienceblogs.com readers who have never been to an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, you are missing out on the world’s greatest discussion of […]
On Friday I will be taking part in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program at Stanford University, speaking to attendees about how the public uses science information online. Whether news, YouTube, […]
Say what? Fred Thompson is launching his presidential candidacy on Jay Leno? In today’s fragmented media world, it’s a smart move. As the political scientist Matt Baum describes in a […]
According to a new Pew polling analysis, religion is not proving to be a clear-cut positive in the 2008 presidential campaign. According to Pew, candidates viewed by voters as the […]
Science has published four letters in response to our framing article along with a fifth letter as our reply. As it turns out, I know two of the correspondents fairly […]
Pew has released an extensive analysis by political scientist Michael Robinson of three decades of its news consumption data. Among the key findings, since the 1980s, the percentage of the […]
Congressman John Shadegg’s re-election campaign issued a press release last week that cites Michael Fumento and Steve McIntyre to claim that the “facts” about climate change are wrong. If you […]
It’s going to be a busy fall semester. Classes start here at American University next week but in my down time I will be traveling to many different cities and […]
Before there was James Carville and Carl Rove, there was Michael Deaver, father of the presidential photo-op and stage master to the Ronald Reagan White House. As the Washington Post […]
NOTE: Unfortunately, the article is only free access from most university IP addresses. Please email me at [email protected] and I can send you a copy.I have the following article forthcoming […]
Here are the major implications from our study analyzing twenty years of American public opinion data on global warming:1. Global warming skeptics continue to make an impact on public opinion. […]
In his Sept. column at Scientific American, Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, echoes the very same warnings about the Dawkins-Hitchens PR campaign emphasized here at Framing Science and in […]
I’m back in DC after spending the previous two weeks in San Francisco as an Osher Fellow at The Exploratorium. It was my second visit this year to the world’s […]
As Sciencereports, the big news this week is that Congress passed a bill that adopts almost all of the recommendations of the 2005 National Academies report Rising Above the Gathering […]
HYDERABAD, India – Dozens of Muslim protesters led by three lawmakers attacked an exiled Bangladeshi writer at the release of her book in southern India on Thursday, calling her “anti-Islam,” […]
The Scientist is currently sponsoring an online discussion about framing and new directions in science communication. The web feature is in advance of an article I am contributing to the […]
As part of its Climate Change Connections series, NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce contributes a fascinating feature on how the extreme weather of 1816 likely inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. That year, the […]
As I’ve observed before, with this election cycle’s crop of GOP candidates, when general election time arrives, it’s going to be difficult to employ the traditional Republican strategy of claiming […]
When I was about 7 years old, my Dad brought home a collection of audio tapes that contained the 6.5 hour 1981 NPR broadcast of the radio version of Star […]
As I wrote in response to the NY Times‘ review of Storm World, the success of The Republican War on Science provides a powerful frame of reference for Chris Mooney’s […]
In provoking the emotions of fear and anger among non-believers, the Dawkins-Hitchens PR campaign motivates many atheists to be ever more vocal in attacking and complaining about religion. Yet does […]
As I’ve documented several times here at Framing Science, despite record amounts of news attention to climate change, the issue has often been eclipsed by coverage of “Paris Nicole Smith” […]
In the 2004 election, the great majority of voters didn’t deliberate the specific policy positions of the candidates and then make an informed choice. Instead, in order to make up […]