Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at 
Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet will kick off their Speaking Science tour tomorrow in Kansas City, in the Stowers Institute auditorium at 4 pm. It should be a fun event and a good chance for science advocates to start a discussion about how to communicate science to nonscientists.
Nisbet and Mooney kicked the discussion off with their article in framing in Science and the associated op-ed in the Washington Post. There was a vigorous debate online about those articles, what it means to "frame" science, and what framings might be useful.
Missouri recently fought back a state law forbidding stem cell research, a law that nearly cut off the Stowers Institute at the knees. Stowers attracted world-class molecular biologists and biotechnologists, and would probably not have been able to hold onto them had the voters not amended the state constitution to allow cutting-edge research. I'm sure that the successes of that campaign will play a central role in discussion at the talk, as will the success we've had on this side of the border in defending science education.
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