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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.

SHARP

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.

Science Policy:

Obama to undo Bush anti-science policies

From the BBC: US President-elect Barack Obama will seek to reverse Bush administration policies when he enters office on 20 January, his transition chief has said. John Podesta said executive orders by President George W Bush on issues such as...

Posted on November 10, 2008 7:37 AM • 0 Comments •

Obama's malaria plan

Obama announced last week plans to end deaths from malaria by 2015. I have an analysis of his plan here at Aetiology....

Posted on September 27, 2008 3:00 PM • 0 Comments •

Linux.com on the candidates

Linux Dot Com has a piece comparing Obama and McCain. Here. This will be important to anyone with an interest in Open Source technology, the intertubes, all that stuff....

Posted on September 26, 2008 11:58 PM • 0 Comments •

Science and Politics Symposium at Harvard Medical School

Next Tuesday at 1-6PM.

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Posted on September 26, 2008 11:54 AM • 0 Comments •

Election Coverage in Nature

The latest issue of Nature has a special section on the US presidential election, go check it out.

Posted on September 25, 2008 6:16 PM • 0 Comments •

Let's talk about the facts - Part 5 - Science Funding

Governmental funding of science is fundamentally important to our economic future. Let's take a closer look at the stats.

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Posted on September 19, 2008 6:59 PM • 7 Comments •

Science Debate 2008: McCain's Answers

Republican presidential candidate John McCain and/or his campaign have responded to the fourteen questions issued by the Science Debate 2008 effort. I addressed the responses of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (and/or his campaign) earlier. When I read over the...

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Posted on September 19, 2008 12:13 PM • 4 Comments •

ScienceDebate at a glance, Part I

If you're like me, your eyes might have glazed over just a bit at the fields of red and blue text generated by ScienceDebate 2008. Obviously these issues are important, but a quick cut-and-paste job into my word processor reveals...

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Posted on September 15, 2008 5:04 PM • 8 Comments •

John McCain Answers Science Debate 2008

On August 30, Chris Mooney and I reported that Senator Barack Obama responded to ScienceDebate2008 and this morning we can announce Senator John McCain has as well. The Senator from Arizona provided a glimpse into what the McCain-Palin administration...

Posted on September 15, 2008 10:34 AM • 9 Comments •