Guest Thinkers

Declaring that framing should be a central strategy, Ellen Goodman in today’s syndicated Boston Globe column issues a call to arms on climate change: “Can we change from debating global […]

A series of concerts “bigger than Live Aid” are being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before a global audience of two billion, […]

Though they may appear very simple, intensive time and effort goes into plotting the jacket covers for intended blockbuster novels like Michael Crichton’s Next. Today’s backpage essay at the NY […]

Just how tough is it to sustain news and thereby public attention to the problem of global warming? Exhibit A: The week after the release of the IPCC report, the […]

Where once it was the province of against-the-establishment rebels and citizen media types, major institutions are now taking wide advantage of blogging technology to promote their message or to expand […]

Irony can be an effective persuasion tool. As pictured on the Drudge Report this morning with the headline: HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF PLANET’ CANCELED BECAUSE OF ICE STORM. The headline […]

Want to keep up with the details of stem cell funding and politics in California? The California Stem Cell Report is the place for you. And while you are there, […]

Something’s rotten in Denmark. Conservatives once again have sprung a media trap on Al Gore, but this time overseas.At the Wall Street Journal , “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg and Danish […]

Across most nationally representative surveys, if you measure Evangelical christians as those respondents who identify themselves as “evangelical” and who also, when given a multiple choice question, answer that the […]

At the Washington Post today , Juliet Eilperin and Michael Grunwald report on the diverging priorities of House speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic chairmen John Dingell and Henry Waxman, […]

I’ve noted in recent presentations and posts the strong role of partisanship in how Americans view the science and relative urgency of global warming. Yet according to a Pew survey […]

By far, the most successful buzz marketing campaign of the past decade has been Apple’s ability to dominate news coverage with the release of their latest i-products. NPR’s On the […]

For those that have been following the debate over the recent Chronicle of Higher Ed rankings of top US research universities, the publication is currently hosting an interesting discussion with […]

Back in the fall, after hosting a class “blog” debate on the Internet and community, more than a few readers asked me whether I would post the reading list for […]

Bird flu is suddenly back in the news as officials in Indonesia report new cases this week. In a spring 2006 Skeptical Inquirer Online column, after evaluating trends in reporting […]

In case you missed it, ScienceBlogs lit up last week with news that Federal Way school district in Seattle has banned Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, in part because the presentation […]

A warm welcome to students from UNC’s English 12 course.Please have fun navigating and evaluating my blog. Feel free to leave comments, suggestions, and feedback in the comments section of […]

University classes for the spring semester are in full swing, and several courses have integrated blogs and the evaluation of such into their class content. As previously posted, UNC’s English […]

Today I am launching a new regular feature where I will spotlight DC events of interest for readers of Framing Science who live, work, and play here in the Beltway. […]

The latest analysis of the week’s top news agenda stories from the Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that despite the Dems best efforts to draw media and public attention […]

Tony Snow denies reports from sources close to UK prime minister Tony Blair that Bush will use next week’s State of the Union address to announce plans for the US […]

Many readers will want to check out the debate going on over at Belief.net between best-selling “End of Faith” author Sam Harris and “Conservative Soul” author/Time magazine blogger Andrew Sullivan. […]

From the news wires: Calling concerns about building George W. Bush’s presidential library there unfounded, Southern Methodist University’s president told faculty Wednesday the project would increase the school’s visibility nationwide….”Over […]

In the days before the House vote to fund embryonic stem cell research, the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times ran page one stories heralding a Nature Biotech study that […]

While many schools pour hundreds of millions of dollars into athletics, more signs today that among the elite universities, stem cell research is at the center of competition. As I […]

Science issues are lining up to be a big part of the political jockeying by the 2008 presidential hopefuls. Plans are in the works to make Framing Science the-go-to-site for […]

Later this weekend, I will have much more to say about this op-ed by Yuval Levin appearing in Friday’s NY Times, so check back. The piece is a leading example […]

In the Senate, stem cell proponents figure that they have 66 to 67 votes lined up in support of the funding bill passed today in the House. As I previously […]

What was the impact of Bush’s Iraq speech? Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post has an excellent round up of media and pundit reaction to the president’s primetime TV appearance. […]

A battle appears to be brewing in Texas over the proposed Presidential library at SMU: DALLAS – Negotiations to build George W. Bush’s presidential library at Southern Methodist University have […]