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Periodically I review books related to science communication. This is a review of Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story by Randy Olson (2015, University of Chicago Press, 256 pp)....

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On Tuesday, February 20th, 236 mayors sent a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt warning him to stop attacking the nation's clean energy. Scott Pruitt is well known for his acts to destroy e...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2018/02/hundreds-of-mayors-call-out-scott.html

Talking to people who deny man-made climate change can be a challenge, but it's necessary. Many people are simply confused by all the rhetoric (something that is intentionally exploited by lobbyi...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-to-talk-to-climate-change-denier.html

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The media and anti-science lobbyists have once again grossly misrepresented a scientific study. The authors of that study have issued a statement to clarify: A number of media reports have a...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/09/clarifying-recent-press-coverage.html

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, h...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-not-to-run-epa.html

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 st...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/08/to-communicate-science-first-lose.html

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...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/08/liberals-and-conservatives-read.html

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, th...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/07/natures-allies-eight-conservationists.html

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 whis...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/07/whistleblower-speaks-out-as-pruitt.html

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 Rel...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/07/if-i-understood-you-would-i-have-this.html

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 the...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-new-scientific-study-came-out-and.html

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 ev...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/06/not-scientist-how-politicians-mistake.html

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 ...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/06/alan-alda-on-communicating-science.html

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 r...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/06/are-politicians-ignorant-or-dishonest.html

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 ...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/06/trump-sentences-our-children-to-death.html

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 a...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/05/scott-pruitt-lied-about-climate-science.html

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...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-science-of-communicating-science.html

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 ...

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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,...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/04/march-for-science-april-22nd-details.html

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 propaga...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-warning-to-teachers-about-heartlands.html

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 o...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-dangerous-dishonesty-of-republican.html

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 a...

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/03/exposing-climate-denialism-series.html

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 scien...

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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....

http://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2017/03/tips-for-communicating-science-to-public.html