Tips for Communicating Science to the Public
One of the questions dogging scientists is whether they should speak out about science issues to the public. In the past we've largely stuck to our ivory towers, and been criticized for doing so. On...
View ArticleLetters to a Young Scientist by E.O. Wilson
Part memoir, part mentoring, and part history of science, ecological icon E.O. Wilson offers up this series of 20 letters of advice to those beginning - or thinking of beginning - a life in science....
View ArticleExposing Climate Denialism - The Series
The Dake Page has published a series of posts over the years exposing climate denialism. This post brings many of those posts together for easy access. Feel free to save this post for reference and...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Dishonesty of Republican Anti-Science Politicians
Republicans are dishonestly anti-science. This is not a partisan opinion; the empirical evidence of this is overwhelming. This week saw more examples, from the Republican White House's rollback of...
View ArticleA Warning to Teachers About Heartland's Fake Climate Report Ruse
The infamous tobacco and fossil fuel lobbying firm, Heartland Institute, is again intentionally disinforming the public. This past week they sent 25,000 copies of a climate science denial propaganda...
View ArticleMarch for Science April 22nd - Details
The new administration has made no secret it denies science and is set on destroying human health and environmental protections. The EPA transition team was headed by science-denying Myron Ebell, head...
View ArticleWhy I March for Science
I march for science because science is critical to our daily lives. I march because I've been a scientist all my life. I march because I am a science communicator. I march because our climate is...
View ArticleThe Science of Communicating Science - Why Facts Don't Matter
Facts don't matter. Of course, facts do matter, but not as much as you might think. This is especially true in communicating science to the public and policy-makers. I previously addressed how to...
View ArticleScott Pruitt Lied About Climate Science: A Scientific Study
Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA in the current anti-science administration, blatantly lied to Congress about the state of climate science. A new study explicitly examines Scott Pruitt's claim and...
View ArticleTrump Sentences Our Children to Death, Hands our Economy to China and Russia...
As expected, Trump proves he is profoundly ignorant and pathologically dishonest. His announcement that he would remove the United States from the Paris Climate Accord contains virtually not one bit...
View ArticleAre Politicians Ignorant or Dishonest When it Comes to Science?
I'm about halfway through reading a new book by Dave Levitan called Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science. The main title is derived from a constant...
View ArticleAlan Alda on Communicating Science
Alda Alda is in the house. He is here to help communicate the science of communicating science. I arrive a full hour before the lecture and 10 minutes before they open the doors, but the line is...
View ArticleNot a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle...
Today's book review is of Dave Levitan's Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science, published in April 2017. I tag this is an important book that everyone...
View ArticleA New Scientific Study Came Out - And Deniers Immediately Lied About It
One of the more prevalent tactics of climate science deniers is to lie. They do this by cherry-picking, misrepresentation, straw men, and a number of other mechanisms of dishonesty. Sometimes they...
View ArticleIf I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? by Alan Alda [Book...
Next in my periodic series of book reviews is Alan Alda's newest book on science communicating, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating...
View ArticleWhistleblower Speaks Out as Pruitt Tries to Destroy EPA
We saw an amazing pair of events happen this week that highlight how industry lobbyists are attempting to eliminate the regulatory oversight that protects human health and the environment. A...
View ArticleNature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World by Larry Nielsen
Today we review a book providing eight succinct biographies of key conservationists - Nature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World, by Larry Nielsen. As the subtitle suggests, the...
View ArticleLiberals and Conservatives Read Different Science Books, And That is a Problem
As Republicans and others who identify as "conservatives" continue to attack science and scientists, it begs the question of where they are getting their information. EPA Administrator and fossil fuel...
View ArticleTo Communicate Science, First Lose the Jargon. Here's how.
Effective communication of science requires that scientists reach out to a variety of audiences. First we need to communicate our research to other scientists, both in and out of our fields of study...
View ArticleHow Not to Run the EPA
These pages have previously pointed out the dishonesty of Trump's EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt. For example, see here, here, here, and here. Now a former Republican Administrator of the EPA, has...
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