Science Policy and Debate in the 2008 Presidential Election
With less than two months left before the next U.S. president is elected, ScienceBlogs wanted to dedicate a space to campaign politics. A Vote For Science is a group blog that will focus on the candidates' science policies. It is managed by many interested ScienceBloggers, as well as guest blogger Ivan Oelrich of the Federation of American Scientists.
The Scientists and Engineers for America's SHARP network allows you to click on the map to see where your candidates stand on important science issues.
October 31, 2008
In the latest issue of Science, an article on grass-roots efforts by scientists in the last weeks before the election brought up a startling point, that there have been a lot of letters to the Editor and OpEds published in...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 2:10 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: "I'm voting for..."
Our latest AVoteforScience videos are up and a new article in Science talks about the effort and other grass roots efforts this year. I will note that Science forgot to mention that the AVoteForScience effort was done in partnership with...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 11:54 AM • 0 Comments •
October 29, 2008
Category: Presidential Candidate
This is unbelievable. The Nobel Laureates for Obama effort just sent me an updated letter with an additional 11 names bringing the total to 76 Nobel laureates in science endorsing Obama. That completely eclipses the previous record of 47 endorsing...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 2:25 AM • 3 Comments •
October 28, 2008
Category: "I'm voting for..."
Here are the latest videos in our AVoteForScience YouTube Challenge. They include videos from Dr. Jose Morales at Columbia University, Dr. Robert Dottin of the Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function (below) and beloved scienceblogger and marine scientist...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 12:20 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Teh Gayz....Oh NOes!!!
Wouldn't it be a good idea to first have some data to support that claim that permitting gays to marry will destroy everything that is good about America?
Posted by DrugMonkey at 9:36 AM • 5 Comments •
October 27, 2008
Category: "I'm voting for..."
Today's AVoteForScience video comes from Dr. Kirsten (Kiki) Sanford, the incredibly talented host of This Week in Science, my favorite science radio show. If you haven't heard it, you can download it as a podcast from iTunes or here. OK,...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 9:26 AM • 1 Comments •
October 24, 2008
Category: "I'm voting for..."
In a striking video that includes footage of the old Bell Labs building and a frank discussion of the loss of competitiveness in the US, Physicist Larry Jackel explains why he is endorsing Obama for President. See all the AVoteForScience...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 2:41 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: "I'm voting for..."
Here is the latest video from our YouTube AVoteForScience challenge. We will have a lot more videos coming in the week before the election. It is by John Dunbar, a microbiologist from New Mexico. He explains that leadership that is...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 9:26 AM • 0 Comments •
October 22, 2008
Category: "I'm voting for..."
We have had a fantastic response to our AVoteForScience YouTube challenge and the press has started to notice. I have done two interviews in the past 24 hours on the effort. If you are a scientist, get your videos explaining...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 5:46 PM • 2 Comments •
October 21, 2008
Category: Presidential Candidate
SEA is holding a Presidential forum with representatives from the Obama and McCain campaigns duking it out on energy issues. Kurt Yeager, cochair of the McCain California Energy Security Coalition will square off with Dan Kammen, Senior Advisor on Energy...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 4:14 PM • 0 Comments •
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