Blue Collar Scientist

I’ve criticized Chris Mooney, Matt Nisbet, and the framists¹ before (here, here, and here), returning again and again to the point that they have offered no constructive criticism or advice to me and others engaged in science communication.

My favorite blogger, Mike the Mad Biologist, has written an open letter to Mooney, and it’s a damn good one. One highlight:

Here’s the problem: you keep coming to evolutionary biologists with a problem (the perception of evolutionary biology), and you don’t have a solution. Do you think there’s a single evolutionary biologist who is happy with public opinion regarding evolution and creationism? But you’re not giving us concrete solutions.

It is worth reading the whole thing.

1. I’ll be damned if I will call them framers - they’re nothing like as brilliant as the people who composed the Constitution. [↩]

Greg Laden has an excellent post up about what I can only conclude are antiscience activists Matt Nisbet and Chris Mooney - who, for reasons I cannot understand, host their blogs at Scienceblogs.

I’ll be revisiting this issue this week with a proper explanation of why I consider these framists to be fatal to science education and communication, but just right now, I’m sending press releases all over the country, and I simply don’t have time.

By the way, check this blog tomorrow around 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, or 6:00 AM Alaska Daylight Time, for an announcement of some very big news involving some of our favorite people.