Posts Tagged ‘Chris Mooney’

Inside Chris Mooney's Brain

March 27, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Chris Mooney, science | 415 comments

Several weeks ago, in a post at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, I said that Chris Mooney’s “new book argues that Republicans are genetically wired to be anti-science.” In an email to me, Chris asserted that this characterization “misrepresented” his book, which is called “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They…Continue Reading…

Chris Mooney's Epiphany

May 31, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in science journalism, social science | 4 comments

It’s fascinating when someone gets so smitten with a theory that explains EVERYTHING. Lately, Chris Mooney can’t stop purring about “motivated reasoning,” which he discusses at length in this article. It’s even given him insight into his own behavior: Blogs”“and blog commenting”“allow us to respond even more rapidly (without calm reflection) and emotionally (without editorial…Continue Reading…

Chris Mooney Spins Himself Dizzy Over Nisbet

May 3, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate bloggers, climate change, climate politics | 11 comments

What world is Chris Mooney living in? In his latest attempt to spin the Matthew Nisbet report into something it’s not, Mooney is pleased to announce that this Miller-McCune “story came out quite well,” which extensively quotes him. Well, I think the story on Nisbet’s report was fair and turned out quite well, too. How about…Continue Reading…