ScienceWriters Issue Explores ‘Denial,’ Points to Six-Step ‘Denialism Manual’ | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

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Journalists covering climate science issues can take some heart in knowing they're not alone in newsrooms across the country in reporting "in the age of denial."

In a series of pieces in the summer 2012 issue ofScienceWriters, published by the National Association of Science Writers, Inc., several writers address what Editor Lynne Friedmann called a "game changer" University of Wisconsin conference seeking to shed light on questions such as:

• "How does denial affect the craft of the science writer?
• How can science writers effectively explain disputed science?
• What is the big picture?
• Are denialists ever right?"