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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.
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 • 8 Comments •
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 •
Category: Presidential Candidate
..appear to be shifting toward ~475 nm....
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:22 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Presidential Candidate
In yesterday's YouTube video posted by Marty Chalfie, he referred to the fact that all three science Laureates for 2008 had endorsed Obama. Now it is official. From the Obama campaign; "With one voice, 65 of the nation's greatest minds,...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 4:22 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Presidential Candidate
Francis Collins, the former Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and lead on the Human Genome Project has just published an opinion piece in the Virginian Pilot endorsing Barack Obama. Unfortunately the Pilot does not post their guest...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 1:04 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Presidential Candidate
One of the first things Martin Chalfie wanted to do after learning that he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is endorse Barack Obama for President of the United States. That brings the total number of Nobel Prize winners in...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 3:59 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Presidential Candidate
Left or right, science loses when politicians use it as a campaign strategy...
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 8:30 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Presidential Candidate
At the 18 September head-to-head between health advisors from the McCain and Obama campaign that Scientists and Engineers for America hosted at George Washington University, a question on in vitro fertilization completely stumped McCain health advisor Jay Khosla. The Obama...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 3:08 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Presidential Candidate
OMG! The LA Times has an article from over the weekend that details a 1997 interaction between a Wasilla resident, Philip Munger, and then Mayor Sarah Palin. Now this is one man's story from a decade ago, but if it...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 8:33 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Presidential Candidate
CBS is ever so slowly releasing bits and pieces of Katie Couric's interviews with John McCain and Sarah Palin. Last night they released the transcript and some of the video of the third part of the interview where Governor Palin...
Posted by Michael Stebbins at 2:26 AM • 9 Comments •
