John Holdren on ScienceDebate2008

John Holdren
Chair, American Association for the Advancement of Science; President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center

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I am a postdoc at Johns Hopkins and I think "Science Debate 2008" is a great idea. It is really unfortunate that they have decided to exclude one of the five remaining major-party candidates due to their arbitrary definition of "viability": Ron Paul. Maybe with the news that Ralph Nader is running, they should extend invitations to both Ron Paul and Ralph Nader.