Science and the next President of the United States

By Kent on January 10, 2008 8:35 AM | 1 Comment | 2 TrackBacks | View blog reactions

In last week's Science, Don Kennedy wrote in an editorial

We need to know the candidates' qualifications for understanding and judging science, and for speaking intelligently about science and technology to the leaders of other nations in planning our collective global future...But I do care about their scientific knowledge and how it will inform their leadership.

Also in that issue there is a News Focus on science and the presidency, in which the candidates' positions on science are described. Here are the links:

1Including Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, who withdrew after the Iowa caucuses.

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Science, health, and related policies from Uncommon Ground on January 17, 2008 10:13 AM

I've written before about how important it is that science should inform the policy choices of the next President of the United States, and I pointed out that Science provided analyses of the candidates views on science in a recent... Read More

National Academies co-sponsor Science Debate 2008 from Uncommon Ground on February 5, 2008 6:27 AM

I received the following e-mail this morning. On Friday PBS NewsHour ran this story on us. Then today, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine joined AAAS and the Council on... Read More

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The president should be smarter man is a fact.

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