1. Debunking and Responding to Science Denial
Josh Rosenau
National Center for Science Education
@JoshRosenau

4. ALCOHOL
HOMOSEX
GENETIC
ENGINEERING
MOM/CHILD
LIB
HARD ROCK
TERRORISM

6. Education doesn’t matter
alone
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Education doesn’t matter

9. Audience Research Selected Findings
Strongest messages in both rounds of research
Invoke the role of evolution in making advances in medicine and curing diseases
The compatibility of religious faith and acceptance of evolution
One’s personal religious viewpoints should not be imposed on public school students
A key framing point
Science class should help students to understand how science works and how scientists do their jobs. Evolution is a core scientific principle that is foundational to many areas of science and helps scientists make technological developments, like curing disease.
Courtesy of Jay Labov, National Academy of Sciences

11. Make political controversy political
Separate science and nonscience
Make political controversy
political
Make religious controversy
religious

13. Don’t be afraid of emotion

15. Opinions don’t differ on
the shape of the Earth.

16. Shift to a real scientific debate
(Were dinosaurs warm-blooded,
not evolution vs. creationism)

18. Science is a process