Responding to Sherwood Boehlert

By cmooney on May 17, 2007.

On May 3, former House Science Committee chair Sherwood Boehlert gave the distinguished AAAS Carey Lecture (PDF). It recently came to our attention that Boehlert spent a significant chunk of the talk commenting on the Nisbet-Mooney "framing science" article in Science.

We've now posted a reply to Boehlert over at "Speaking Science 2.0." Check it out.

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