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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 Kerry and it is more than have ever endorsed anything in history.
Now, this is no group of sycophants, these are some of the greatest minds of our nation, so it is really impossible to view this as some sort of partisan blindness. I can't help but think that the recent ridiculous comments of both McCain and Palin on science have something to to do with the new additions, but to their credit, they limit their statement to science, something they know a little about. For those of you have been asking, I do not know of a single Nobelist in science who has endorsed McCain/Palin.
The updated letter can be found HERE (pdf).
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Now that is a truly diverse group. The few I know personally on this list fall across the political spectrum.
Unfortunately most voters don't care about what scientists say because they don't have any understanding of the role of basic science in their life.
Posted by: bobh | October 29, 2008 8:56 AM
Hopefully, us scientifically minded people won't use this as a reason to mount an argument-from-authority. (Regardless of how tempting it might be.)
Posted by: Umlud | October 29, 2008 1:17 PM
How many living American science laureates are there, after all?
Posted by: chris y | October 31, 2008 11:01 AM