Snap Observations: Expelled in the NYT, Science Blogging Conf, Framing Science

After riling up the blogosphere last month, Ben Stein’s movie on intelligent design, Expelled, makes it into the NY Times. The most devastating implication of the movie is buried at the end of the piece. Eugenie C. Scott, a physical anthropologist who heads the National Center for Science Education, said she feared the film would depict “the scientific community as intolerant, as close-minded, and as persecuting those who disagree with them. And this is simply wrong.”

The Second Annual Science Blogging Conference, slated for January 19, 2007, also makes its way into the mainstream with coverage in the North Carolina News & Observer. The story includes peppy background on organizers Anton Zuiker and Bora Zivkovic. (Via Terra Sigillata.)

Building on the editorial that opened the current debate about framing science, Matt Nisbet and Dietram Scheufele explain in The Scientist (subscription) their latest research on framing scientific communication. Nisbet summarizes the concrete suggestions they provide and excerpts the editor’s note, reminding us: “If you don’t frame it, other’s will.” A long-awaited debate over science framing happens tomorrow in Minneapolis: Nisbet and Chris Mooney talk to Greg Landen and PZ Myers.

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