Mathew Chapman and Sheril Krishenbaum are eager to find out why the presidential candidates are not focusing on the topic of science and technology. They posted a blog on The Huffington Post to explain their reasoning.
"This is the longest running presidential race in history, and yet no event is scheduled in which the candidates are asked to focus on the two most pressing social issues of our time: science and technology. We are asking the candidates to take time out of their busy schedules for this because nothing could be more important."
They are basically just suggesting that these candidates at least have a debate of science and technology issues and what their future aspirations are. They say that their really are some major problems that need to be faced.
The Science Debate 2008 is brought up by them saying that this issue is already encouraged through this debate team and it is good start for the issue.
"We would like you to go to our website, ScienceDebate2008.com, and register your support for this important idea. But don't stop there. If you belong to a campaign, talk to your candidate and ask him or her to become a part of this. Send an email to the head of your party, Howard Dean, for Democrats, Mike Duncan for Republicans, and tell them you like this idea."
To me, this seems like more of an advertisement for the Science Debate 2008. They say there are science and technology issues that need to be informed but do not give any information on what these problems are in their post.
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Hi: If you want some reasons for holding a Science Debate, you may want to see my post on it:
http://sciencesense-eyesopen.blogspot.com/2007/12/science-debate-2008.html
Also, there is a nice Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal by physicist Lawrence Krauss:
http://genesis1.phys.cwru.edu/~krauss/dec6opedwsj.html
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