I hate to rain on your parade, but don't expect a single candidate to accept. The government sold out to the multinationals in the 60s, and it will keep getting worse and worse. Think of the US as a huge rich corporation and the multinationals as corporate raiders. They are taking over on the cheap, selling off the assets, and will leave this country one huge bankrupt without resources, only a crushing debt.
So the "multinationals" - many of which happen to be US owned and based companies - have no interest in maintaining a robust science ability in the US? They aren't the least bit interested in scientific developments we might, oh I don't know, patent and sell for profir to the rest of the world? Seriously, how many of our modern technological devices came from US goverment research? The smoek detector in your home, for one. So a scientific debate can be a good thing, especially in our technology driven age.
I hate to rain on your parade, but don't expect a single candidate to accept. The government sold out to the multinationals in the 60s, and it will keep getting worse and worse. Think of the US as a huge rich corporation and the multinationals as corporate raiders. They are taking over on the cheap, selling off the assets, and will leave this country one huge bankrupt without resources, only a crushing debt.
So the "multinationals" - many of which happen to be US owned and based companies - have no interest in maintaining a robust science ability in the US? They aren't the least bit interested in scientific developments we might, oh I don't know, patent and sell for profir to the rest of the world? Seriously, how many of our modern technological devices came from US goverment research? The smoek detector in your home, for one. So a scientific debate can be a good thing, especially in our technology driven age.