Hundreds of eminent scientists, Nobel Lauriates, scientific organizations, journal editors and university presidents have signed on to a call for a presidential debate on science and technology. So exactly where does your favorite presidential candidate stand on policies concerning science and technology. Do they think evolution and intelligent design should be given equal opportunity in being taught in the science classroom? What do they think about stem cell research - use embryonic stem cells or not? Global warming - is it an important issue....important enough to address when they are president? How about energy independence? Is it possible for the USA to become independent of foreign supplies of oil? How would they propose doing so? The environment, clean water, healthy oceans; health and medicine, global diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, drug patents, generic drugs. These are only a few of the many issues that should be discussed.
The non-partisan debate has been scheduled for April 18, 2008 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That is four days prior to the Pennsylvania primary. As far as I know, not a single candidate has agreed to such a debate.
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