Well Said!/Say What?

Climate change denial, Climate change education, Well Said!/Say What?

Stephanie Keep

05.09.2017

Worrying Signs of The Times

Consider, if you will, Bret Stephens’s inaugural column in The New York Times, published on April 28, 2017, under the title “Climate of Complete Certainty.” Owing to Stephens’s past misrepresentations of climate change, the column received a lot of scrutiny—provoking “an unusually large outpouring” of letters to the editor, including one from Merchants of Doubt coauthor Naomi Oreskes, as well as incisive criticism from

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Evolution, Well Said!/Say What?

Stephanie Keep

07.14.2016

Kind of Well Said…At Least in Places: The Washington Post on Apes and Humans

The other week The Washington Post’s Speaking of Science blog addressed the question: “Dear Science: Why aren’t apes evolving into humans?”

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Evolution education, Well Said!/Say What?

Stephanie Keep

05.13.2016

America’s Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse is...Complicated, Part 5

As in parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, we’re having a roundtable discussion of Joseph T.

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Evolution education, Well Said!/Say What?

Stephanie Keep

05.12.2016

America’s Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse is...Complicated, Part 4

As in parts 1, 2, and 3, we’re having a roundtable discussion of Joseph T. Spadafino’s “Americans’ Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse Is a Failure of Science Education,” posted at (although later withdrawn from) the Huffington Post.

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Evolution education, Well Said!/Say What?

Stephanie Keep

05.11.2016

America’s Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse is...Complicated, Part 3

As in parts 1 and 2, we’re having a roundtable discussion about Joseph T. Spadafino’s “Americans’ Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse Is a Failure of Science Education,” posted at (although later withdrawn from) the Huffington Post.

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Evolution education, Well Said!/Say What?

Stephanie Keep

05.10.2016

America’s Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse is...Complicated, Part 2

As explained in part 1, we’re having a roundtable discussion of Joseph T. Spadafino’s “Americans’ Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse Is a Failure of Science Education,” posted at (although later withdrawn from) the Huffington Post.

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Evolution education, Well Said!/Say What?

Stephanie Keep

05.09.2016

America’s Unwillingness to Accept Evolution En Masse is...Complicated, Part 1

A couple of weeks ago, I was strolling through an airport on my way to visit friends in D.C. when I spotted a tweet by Amanda Glaze (@EvoPhD) regarding a post on the HuffPost Education blog about evolution education. Amanda wrote: “I would have loved to have been consulted on this piece, or perhaps @Paleophile or @icbinns. Problem is complex.” The post, by Huffington Post contributor Joseph T. Spadafino, is now unavailable (more on that below), but a cached version can be found if you do some digging.