Neal Lane On ScienceDebate2008

Neal Lane
Former Science Adviser to President Clinton as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Senior Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University

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Just a positive criticsm, I think Sciencedebate2008 would also benefit from a few videos of normal lay people supporting the idea.
It's fine that so many great scientists are supporting it, but a candidate to the presidency should also understand that not only those for whom Science is a profession, think that it is essential that the USA maintains a strong leadership in this domain, and that our long term competitivity vis a vis Europe and China depends on this.

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