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Responding to Sherwood Boehlert

Explore Sherwood Boehlert's insights from the AAAS Carey Lecture on the framing science article's impact.

Written byChris Mooney
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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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