Mooney & Nisbet Do Bay Area

Over the past few days, it has been possible to catch the two "framing science" perpetrators jogging along San Francisco Bay under the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge.

We haven't hung out in a while, so we had a lot to catch up on. Nisbet is a former Osher Fellow at the San Francisco Exploratorium who is still reeling from the massive attention paid to his AAAS panel (wink). And as for me...well, you already know I moved to LA. And as you'll soon hear, Sheril and I are embarking on a new project (besides Science Debate 2008) about the intersection between science and society.

So we're in different places now, geographically and otherwise, but we're reviving the "Speaking Science 2.0" talk for several events here, including this public one tonight on the Berkeley campus. Hoping to see some Sciblings there.

Meantime, I've been having arguments with Nisbet over why ScienceDebate2008 is or isn't a good idea overall. His criticism is actually fairly interesting and a lot smarter than some of the other knee jerk stuff that I've seen--indeed, so interesting that I don't really disagree with it, and actually think that if/when the first presidential science debate happens, he and I will both probably concur that it was a good thing on balance--or at least a useful experience for science to have and learn from.

So, perhaps I'll blog on this in the future.