Let's Have a Presedential Debate on Science
Let's Have a Presedential Debate on Science
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#1Let's Have a Presedential Debate on Science
Posted: 12/28/07 at 9:18am
Let's have a presidential debate on science
Can any of the candidates lead America back to the head of the class in science and technology?
By Shawn Lawrence Otto
"In the past few weeks, marine biologists working in Papua, New Guinea, spoke about the need to ban fishing in certain parts of the ocean hard hit by rising temperatures. Meanwhile, in the American Midwest, stem cell pioneer James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison announced what may be a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery: how to turn ordinary skin cells into stem cells.
These two events -- separated by some 10,000 miles -- are nonetheless intimately related. Both highlight the single most constant theme of life in the past decades: how science and technology are changing our world and have become inseparable from politics."
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/12/13/sciencedebate2008/
#2we had a presidential debate on science and no one came
Posted: 12/28/07 at 9:21am
the majority of americans would yawn and change the channel to watch talking heads screaming at each other.
besides, the next president believes in the literalness of adam and eve, not adam and steve, so it's kind of a moot debate.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2we had a presidential debate on science and no one came
Posted: 12/28/07 at 10:48amThe majority of Americans don't watch the debates anyway.
#3we had a presidential debate on science and no one came
Posted: 12/28/07 at 10:48amthat's debateable.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4we had a presidential debate on science and no one came
Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:19am
Indubatably.
[Not that any of this matters in light of the Bhutto assassination.]
#5we had a presidential debate on science and no one came
Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:21am
I LOVE watching Presidential debates. It's practically my new favorite pastime.
I agree with Colleen. Science is one of the most important issues facing our nation, and it ties into most of what goes on in the world today. It seems odd that it's so often ignored as an issue.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#6we had a presidential debate on science and no one came
Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:25amIt's not ignored. It's belittled.
#7we had a presidential debate on science and no one came
Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:40ami'd comment but i am too busy crying over poor benny and cursing the evil pervy.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
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