Mike the Mad Biologist reacts to Matthew Nisbet’s discussion of framing, Gore and global warming, with reference to a paper by Nisbet and Myers from last August.
Here are these posts in chronological order:

Twenty Years of Public Opinion about Global Warming

Does Gore Contribute to the Communication Crisis?
Framing, Evolution, and Power

Sputnik
It does not matter what you believe about god, creationism, science, evolution, whatever. If you were raised in a society in which there is an evil enemy that you are convinced intends to arrive some day on your country’s shores, take over your government, impose a new social order, marry your […]

17th century Arabic anatomy drawing, from the Advances of Islamic Sciences web site. In some Islamic sects, drawing living things is not allowed. As a very practical matter, this excludes students from taking part in certain activities in science classrooms.
During the Bell Museum Slapdown panel last week, Myers brought up differences […]

The Real Winners of last night’s Epic Battle: The cute puppies.
PZ and I closed the bar last night, but since I’m heavily medicated for other, medical reasons, I was dry all night, so here I am, lacking a little sleep, but with no hangover … Last I saw Matt and Chris, they were […]

With the Speaking Science 2.0 panel discussion coming up in just a couple of days, I thought it appropriate to provide a retrospective of my own posts on the “Framing Debate.” This is not comprehensive, nor is it the best of. It’s most of the posts minus a few that are really side […]

New Atheists are mean.
Jake Young at Pure Pedantry writes, as part of a longer piece:

“The New Atheist Camp (for lack of a better term) asserts that science and atheism are one. Religion and science are not internally consistent. Any attempt to recognize religion within a scientific framework is appeasement of superstition and is by […]

For those of you not reading the fascinating and extensive discussion on Pharyngula on Framing, just skip this post. I’m responding here to a long comment Carl Safina made on PZ’s blog, which all started with Baked Alaska, with an even longer rambling response of my own. I don’t think this will fit […]

PZ Myers has a new post on Framing, in which he discusses a “challenge” laid down by Mark Powell of blogfish, which in turn brings up what is supposed to be a good example of framing by Carl Safina, discussed in Safina’s blog post Baked Alaska.
Since the challenge is to PZ Myers, Jason […]

A bloody event from the bible depicted in a Creation Museum diorama. Photo: Answers in Genesis
Kids: If you want a new toy GI Joe, demand a pony. Your parents will come up with a plan to appease you. Perhaps they’ll suggest a GI Joe toy. You’ll […]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Scoundrels and Aristocrats …
… In this corner, we have Author and Journalist Chris the Madman Mooney.
… In this corner, we have American University Professor Matthew The Knucklebreaker Nisbet
… and in this corner we have Anthropologist Greg Prettyboy Laden.

Wait, wait, you can’t have three corners… This was supposed to be a Tag Team […]

A couple of weeks ago, six coal miners were trapped in a mine in Utah. At the time and for several days after, the mine owner claimed that the event that trapped the miners was cased by an “earthquake” (i.e., an act of god, a natural event, an externality). Earthquake experts can tell […]

Remember framing?
I got an email today from Chris Mooney giving a link to a challenge being issued by Mooney and Nisbet:
At this point, I’d also like to issue something of a challenge. I would hope that those bloggers who criticized the “framing science” idea as originally published will now check out the talk […]

Everyone says everyone loves “mythbusters” but I don’t. I’ve never seen them so I can’t love them.
But from the little I have seen, I think they are in the same ilk as Snopes (urban legend page) in that yes, they do “bust” myths but their standards do not alway truly falsify the hypothesis, […]

I recently received an email from Chris Mooney, with a link pointing to this post on his site.

I started a “comment” to a comment by Plover, and realized after several minutes that I was writing yet another post on framing. So here it is as a post.
There is a clarification that needs to be made in this discussion. (Note that this is not a clarification of anything Plover said … […]