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Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

At the Washington Post, a Nisbet/Mooney focus on framing

Matthew C. Nisbet

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 the questions raised over the last week at several blogs. For more, listen to this segment from NPR’s On the Media. Chris Mooney elaborates on the Post piece over at the Intersection.

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