Framing Science
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From the mouths of babes: “We’re worried. Please debate science.”
Posted by Greg Laden on January 21, 2016 
I had previously mentioned the ScienceDebate ad with the kids asking for a science debate. Here is some local coverage on the story (the ad was made here in the Twin Cities) including an interview with one of the stars, Susanlyn Singroy. (I don’t agree with everything she said, but what the heck, she’s asking…
Radio Interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum: ScienceDebate.org
Posted by Greg Laden on June 11, 2015 
As you know, I recently interviewed Sheril Kirshenbaum (see “ScienceDebate.org: Interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum“) about ScienceDebate.org. On Sunday, June 14th, Sheril and I will chat about ScienceDebate, and possibly a few other topics, on Atheist Talk Radio. The details of that upcoming interview are here: “Science Debate in 2016!” Sheril Kirshenbaum on Atheists Talk #317,…
A challenge to my readers and fellow science bloggers!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 3, 2010 Many months ago, the fossil primate “Ida” was reported to the world with much fanfare, including an entire mass market book and a huge press conference, and everything else one can possibly do to announce a new fossil find. Science bloggers and others got rather upset at the Ida team’s over the top fanfare, though…
I might or might not be a science journalist
Posted by Greg Laden on June 9, 2010 One of the great things about Coturnix is that he brings two context-broadening tools to the table in any discussion: Synchronic and diachronic. In a recent post (Am I a Science Journalist? he adds the diachronic. I had not previously realized or considered (or at lest, not thought it relevant) that early science journalists were…
What if “Boob Quake” had been …
Posted by Greg Laden on May 3, 2010 “Dick Shake”
Framing the Pacific Garbage Patch
Posted by Greg Laden on April 1, 2010 Various environmental organizations have been using imagery of dead baby birds with toothbrushes in their guts and solid floating masses of garbage to describe and raise alarm about what has become known as the North Pacific Central Garbage Patch. Yet, the small but important amount of research that has been done there shows that the…
Are the Skepchicks too sexy? (UPDATED)
Posted by Greg Laden on January 22, 2010 Dear Slymepit. Go fuck yourself.
#scio10 Science Online 2010 recollections and reflections on the sessions I attended
Posted by Greg Laden on January 18, 2010 Last weekend I attended Science Online 2010, which is a conference of science communicators with a heavy mix of bloggers, many journalists and others from the print industry, an increasingly large number of book authors, and OpenX (X=access, notebook, science, or whatever) advocates and practitioners.
Unscientific America by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum: A review.
Posted by Greg Laden on January 13, 2010 Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum tries to make several different points. The central framework of the book, on which all the arguments are hung, is that science has a status, a place, in American culture, politics, and economy, and that this status has changed over time.…
What is Wrong with the American System of Education?
Posted by Greg Laden on October 15, 2009 Roughly half of the people in the United States reject one or more fundamental tenets of science (most commonly evolution), while a larger percent, perhaps more than 80 percent depending on how we measure, would fail a basic science test. A strong majority of those American citizens who would claim to have strong feelings about…