Clinton vs Obama: Who would be best for science?

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At the annual AAAS meeting in Boston, representatives from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's campaigns talked to scientists about how they would deal with different science and technology issues.

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[indiadrummer]

Shut up republican... McCain will pretty much just continue to go to war. You don't sound that clever buddy. The majority of americans don't actually want war.

[badbuddhist]

You say its 'true' that defense spending boosts science, but what are you basing that on? What comparative analysis is out there so we know it's a *good* way to boost science? Your statement of 'truth' seems more an unquestioned political belief.

Certainly defense spending results in some good scientific research (how could you spend almost $500 billion on anything and not spend some on science), but is it an *efficient* and *effective* way to advance science? I can't imagine how it could be.

[ThunderheadNebula]

John Holdren is Obama's appointed Science Czar. Like all Czars, they were not approved by the Senate, which is unconstitutional. He advocated in his book "Ecoscience", sterilization of the human population by adding a sterilization drug to the food and water supply and the government taking babies away from single mom's. GOOGLE “zombietime john holdren” and click on link.

[sy1234]

Haha, supporting the Duopoly.

[ssnatcherss]

McCain sends.... No one. Surprise, surprise.

[Di66en6ion]

Just think what all that non-existent cash getting thrown away in the war would do if it would have been redirected to all the science departments.

[peacetrees]

Oh I do agree the highway from Mex to Canada is coming and we can expect to become the North American Union instead of the USA, but I do NOT agree global warming is junk science nor that liberals are responsible for the New World Order taking away our constitution, rights, freedom- that would be the Bush Administration and big oil. They are destroying nature without regard as well-anything for their record profits.

[peacetrees]

I like Hillary and Obama,I just do not think they will change anything unless they start addressing Aipac and the Fed reserve system.Neither will touch these issues- only RP)Until then science will advance towards greed and destruction instead of the best for humanity.Honestly I would vote for anyone but McCain,still RP is the only one who wanted to save our Constitution and bring the power back to the people.Imagine what we could do with science for the GOOD of humanity-we could save the world.

[peacetrees]

You are right, I stand corrected. They can destroy the world several times over but they can't come up with the technology to save it. I do not think the current powers that be are interested in humanity or saving God's creation, they have lost their minds with greed and power. Clearly the priorities of technologies reflect this. Otherwise we would already have clean energy and clean vehicles. Face it big oil runs everything and all they care about is their record profits.

[operationturkey]

Well it looks like Hilary is out now. Hooray!

[1x93cm]

it should be obama vs mccain

[djancak]

so... did this debate ever happen? i assume it did not.