Recent News
GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate Change
Katherine Bagley | InsideClimate News | Feb 22, 2012
GOP scientists say their attempts to talk about climate dangers with their party's politicians and their aides have largely fallen on deaf ears.
Science Is Political
Nader Heidari | Chemical & Engineering News | Feb 20, 2012
The near taboo of discussing science, which seemed to grip policymakers and the media alike, compelled Shawn Lawrence Otto, chief executive officer and cofounder of Science Debate 2008—now known as ScienceDebate.org—to write “Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America.”
Santorum: Democrats are "anti-science," not me
Rebecca Kaplan | CBS News | Feb 20, 2012
His views are not "anti-science" as Democrats claim, Santorum said. "When it comes to the management of the Earth, they are the anti-science ones."
Canadian government is 'muzzling its scientists'
Pallab Ghosh | BBC News | Feb 19, 2012
Speakers at a major science meeting said communication of vital research on health and environment issues is being suppressed.
Science Debate taping at AAAS
Shawn Otto | Science Debate | Feb 18, 2012
Thank you to all the scientists and science advocates who stopped by to say a little on tape about why the candidates for president ought to debate the grand science and engineering challenges.
Can We Ask Presidential Candidates about Science?
Bora Zivkovic | Scientific American | Feb 17, 2012
The idea is for a media organization with a strong reputation, large audience, and necessary resources to team up with a group of smart, dedicated, innovative, tech-savvy and Web-savvy students of journalism to explore and analyze the questions posed by the media to the presidential candidates (most notably during the presidential debates), to see what questions are asked frequently, what questions rarely, and what questions not at all – and then to provide the citizens with the opportunity to have their own voices heard, adding questions they want to ask, inquiring about topics they care about the most.
To combat the irrational, we must engage
Pascal Lapointe | Agence Science-Presse | Feb 14, 2012
It would be easier to build bridges if science was taken more seriously in politics.
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