Friday, 5 September 2008

Science and the 2008 US Presidential election

Congratulations to presidential hopeful Barack Obama for being the first contender to state his views on issues to do with science and technology. As reported in New Scientist (6 September 2008), Mr Obama has provided written responses to 14 questions posed to both candidates by 38,000 Americans, including Nobel laureates and other scientists, as well as scientific organisations. 3400 questions were posed in total and the final 14 selected to pose to the candidates. Mr Obama's responses can be found here, and hopefully there will be a response from John McCain at some point in the near future.

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