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<i>Washington Post</i> front page: "The hot politics of global warming" 24 Aug 2011 | 08:12 am
Climate contentiousness in the presidential primaries—and a "litmus test"
<i>New York Times</i> headline: “Black Scientists Less Likely to Win Federal Research Grants, Study 20 Aug 2011 | 08:25 am
The Times’s source, a study in Science, actually focuses only on the National Institutes of Health.
<i>New York Times</i> solicits readers’ gas-tax views 19 Aug 2011 | 05:11 am
“Invitation to a Dialogue” means science-outreach opportunity on energy
<i>Nature, Science</i> foresee slightly deferred pain for federal science funding 16 Aug 2011 | 05:34 am
Both articles see compromise between the 12 member congressional “supercommittee” as crucial.
<i>Wall Street Journal </i>front page: “Mistakes in Scientific Studies Surge” 13 Aug 2011 | 07:06 am
“Scar on the moral body of science” is mostly in biomedicine, but physics is criticized too.
Are researchers "largely absent" from public life? 10 Aug 2011 | 02:38 am
New York Times writer Cornelia Dean says scientists shun politics and most citizens can't name a scientist.
Former NSF official blasts <i>Washington Post</i>’s Jack Marburger obituary 9 Aug 2011 | 07:26 am
"Not so much an obituary as an editorial rehashing the political agenda of those who intensely disliked Bush and his policies," says Frederick M. Bernthal.
Open access to scientific publications: Two views of an incident 6 Aug 2011 | 04:24 am
Center for American Progress blogger contrasts with two New York Times writers
Physicist Lawrence Krauss ponders NASA in <i>Wall Street Journal</i> 6 Aug 2011 | 02:40 am
Criticizes shuttle, calls for manned exploration, advocates James Webb Space Telescope
<i>New York Times</i> reporter stretches to update public on high-energy physics 5 Aug 2011 | 02:24 am
Can Dennis Overbye's science writing teach anything about connecting nonscientists with science?
