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When knowledge challenges values or cuts against preferred policies, you attack the messenger, and then invent your own rival knowledge. That’s been the playbook for the conservative movement over the […]
The next hurricane season is only a few months away, and when it comes to the possible link between global warming and more intense storms, according to a just released […]
As Earth Day approaches, expect a number of major polling reports on American views of global warming. I recently had a study accepted at Public Opinion Quarterly that analyzes twenty […]
My quick summary reaction to Bill Broad’s provocativeNY Timesarticle surveying a few scientists and social scientists’ opinions on Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth:1) Just like in politics generally, science-related blogs can […]
By way of the Internet, Americans today have more public affairs and science-related information available to them than at any time in history. Yet the availability of information does not […]
As I’ve previously written, expect 2008 to be defined as the YouTube election, as campaigns generate online and conversational buzz by placing innovative ads on the video sharing site, amplifying […]
All eyes today are on Capitol Hill as former VP Al Gore testifies before Congress on global warming. Bill Broad’s NY Times’ article last week has launched a new narrative […]
Gallup’s annual Earth Day survey of public attitudes on the environment is out today, and the results are consistent with the patterns revealed across other surveys this year. In short, […]
The NY Daily Newsspotlights yesterday’s post on the “Two Americas of Global Warming Perceptions” as among the Web’s best.
An initiative that I have been pitching in talks across the country (for example, go here, here, and here), has been proposed for official funding in Congress. Stay tuned for […]
As I have detailed at Framing Science many times, over the past five years, as Democrats and Independents have shifted their views in support of embryonic stem cell research and […]
Over at The Intersection, Chris Mooney elaborates on a recent post to his blog that hits on many of the themes first explored at Framing Science, as well as in […]
Update your RSS feeds, there’s a major new blog on the scene that is worth reading. Framing Conflict was launched a few months back, with a focus on the media’s […]
At the beginning of the spring semester, I noted that the Political Communication Seminar at the University of Virginia and the English 12 course at UNC-Chapel Hill were making use […]
In the week following the Friday, Feb. 2 release of the Fourth IPCC report on global climate change, few if any Americans reported that global warming was the issue they […]
Where have you heard this one before? Back in September, Canada’s Environment Minister John Baird echoed the predictions of a university economist when he claimed that if Canada were to […]
The major news organizations, especially the big three cable news networks, need a crash courses in ethics. Given all the major issues taking place in the world, how can they […]
One of the great paradoxes of contemporary society is that Americans by way of the Internet and specialized cable TV channels have greater access to scientific information than at any […]
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the announcement of the cloned sheep Dolly. While the U.S. press largely passed on the moment, the Canadian and British media paid […]
As I’ve chronicled at this blog, the IPCC report was a massive failure as a communication moment. The inability of the IPCC report to break through to the wider public […]