A Vote For Science
Science Policy and Debate in the 2008 Presidential Election
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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.
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- Stimulus for the humanities: Zero-sum gentrification for urban hipsters?
- ONDCP Booted from Obama's Cabinet
- Does the US need a Culture Czar?
- Obama to undo Bush anti-science policies
- Results for State Ballot Measures on Science
- Happy Election Day! GO VOTE!
- Our First AVoteForScience Couple!
- Massive number of OpEds endorsing Obama because of policies on science
- Nobel Laureate, Murray Gell-Mann endorses Obama
- 76 Nobel Laureates in Science Endorse Obama!
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- boy uzatma on Francis Collins, former head of the Human Genome Project, endorses Obama
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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.
About
A Vote For Science is a group blog that aims to track the candidates' views on science. The blog is managed by both ScienceBloggers and expert guest bloggers, including...
- Mark Chu-Carroll of Good Math, Bad Math
- DrugMonkey of DrugMonkey
- Mike Dunford of The Questionable Authority
- GrrlScientist of Living the Scientific Life
- Greg Laden of Greg Laden's Blog
- Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily
- Matt Nisbet of Framing Science
- Alex Palazzo of The Daily Transcript
- PalMD of Denialism
- Sheril Kirshenbaum of The Intersection
- Ivan Oelrich
- Michael Stebbins
Ivan Oelrich is the Vice President for Strategic Security Programs at the Federation of American Scientists. He received his BS from the University of Chicago and a PhD from Princeton University, both in chemistry. He had a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and later conducted research and taught in the Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
Dr. Oelrich has held senior research staff positions at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a research center supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense; the Center for Science and International Affairs, at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment; and the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in the US Department of Defense. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.
Dr. Oelrich's research has focused on sizing military forces, appropriate military technology, and reducing nuclear weapons worldwide.
Michael Stebbins is the Director of Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists, President of Scientists and Engineers for America Action Fund and a co-founder of Scientists and Engineers for America. He earned his B.S. in Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook and received his Ph.D. in genetics while working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Prior to coming to FAS, Dr. Stebbins worked a Legislative Fellow for US Senator Harry Reid, where he served as an advisor on health and science issues, and as a Public Policy Fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Before coming to Washington he was a Senior Editor at Nature Genetics.
Dr. Stebbins serves on the Advisory Board for the Values Project of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, is a Science Advisor to ScienCentral News, and is an adjunct professor of Bioethics at UPenn. He is a columnist for Science Progress a publication of the Center for American Progress and the author of Sex, Drugs and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted. He lives in Washington DC.
