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- mgraham80, on 09/02/2008, -9/+163Science is elitist. I'm voting for McCain. Willful/Ignorance '08!
- tgray, on 09/02/2008, -3/+116As a scientist, I think he's saying the right things. Of course, its actions, not words that count, but I'm willing to take the chance. I've been saying for years we need to dramatically increase both science spending in general and energy research spending specifically.
- J3553, on 09/02/2008, -9/+113science bless america.
- wishninja, on 09/02/2008, -2/+97Everyone already knows what his answers will be:
ScienceDebate2008: What policies will you support to ensure that America remains the world leader in innovation?
McCain: When I was a in a cage for five years as a POW I didn't have science.
the rest of his answers pretty much go something like that. - mrASSMAN, on 09/02/2008, -1/+56If America doesn't get back on track with science, we're doomed to insignificance on the world stage and our economy would never truly recover. Science and technology is what drives nations forward and we cannot remain a world leader without excelling in the field.
Bush and the religious right has done catastrophic damage to our nation's standing, so these questions are vitally important. I hope we can get a debate on issues such as these. I haven't been hearing enough talk regarding their stances on science, but I know that I supported Obama in 2006 because he did talk about it back then and he made it abundantly clear that he understood the issues and what was at stake. The problem is that the general public doesn't want to hear it, or at least his campaign seems to think so..
Anyway, Science Debate is a great step in the right direction and hopefully future candidates will take part in actual debates and the public/media will take it more seriously. - jlpete9, on 09/02/2008, -1/+56Now where's McCain's?
- ycohain, on 09/02/2008, -0/+46full answers here:
http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id= ... - fenderbiz, on 09/03/2008, -1/+39McCain supports Alzheimer's research
- BlaqReaper, on 09/03/2008, -0/+33...and the computer, and the internet, and digg, and eventually...your retarded comment.
- each3ric, on 09/03/2008, -0/+30I would love to see Palin's answers to #2 and #4 about global warming and about science education. I tried to give a sample answer but I just couldn't get stupid enough to make it sound convincing.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+30Science will take us into the future, like it always has. Its time to stop muting scientists and start listening to those with lab coats, and not those with suits and uniforms.
- Mejari, on 09/03/2008, -0/+28"I didn't have science"
priceless. - ngmcs8203, on 09/03/2008, -0/+26Or...
ScienceDebate2008: What policies will you support to ensure that America remains the world leader in innovation?
McCain: Read my books.
ScienceDebate2008: We read your books, can you please elaborate for those who have yet to read them?
McCain: It's in my books.
ScienceDebate2008: OK, well how do you feel about the debate between evolution and creationism?
McCain: [did not answer] - 9brandon, on 09/02/2008, -1/+24@counterplex: level of detail would have been better indeed ... but there's a fine line between cleaning up a quote and changing it, and I didn't want to cross it. But keep reading! Judge by Obama's words, not somebody else's.
- SeafoodSoop, on 09/03/2008, -2/+24Maybe if we cut costs by stopping the war and taxing those who can afford it...no...that's crazytalk. Who needs science when we have JAYSUS? You are ***** dense, aren't you?
- MattB123, on 09/02/2008, -2/+23I'd be interested to see McCain's response if he ever gives one. I'm looking forward to all of this being talked about in the debates too!
- bluetytanium, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2015.) My flying cars: where are they, science? You said there would be flying cars.
- Saitekc, on 09/03/2008, -2/+21Idiots let religious people run your country, you'll go no where with science because of it.
- mmembrino, on 09/03/2008, -2/+20Nailed it.
- SammyJr, on 09/03/2008, -3/+21Um, yeah. Research costs money. Its called investing in America's future, caveman.
- EtherGnat, on 09/03/2008, -1/+19Much of science would not immediately impact a business' bottom line; that does not mean it is not worth doing. Take studying the atom for example. Real world uses were not immediately apparent, but it's now a cornerstone of our future energy supply, key to our understanding of the universe, and it led to weapons which changed the world.
- MCA2142, on 09/03/2008, -1/+19In Palin's closet. With the skeletons
He's quite busy at the moment - nomonkey, on 09/03/2008, -1/+18For all of the people crying about funding and taxes...
You could have paid for all of that ten times over for one one-hundredth what we paid/are paying for the war in Iraq.
It's not about raising taxes or spending MORE money... it's about spending the money DIFFERENTLY.
It's about priorities. You have what Obama said vs. creationism in schools. It's not ***** close.
And the fact that there are idiots here trashing his responses by making unfounded leaps about money is really depressing. It's tired, debunked *****. Party hacks. - charliebucketts, on 09/03/2008, -0/+16I'll take science over war.
- riskybeats, on 09/03/2008, -0/+16I love science as much as the next biology major.. but ... no
- zephyear, on 09/03/2008, -1/+17so?
if there's anything we should be spending the ***** out of it's science - twiztidsinz, on 09/03/2008, -0/+16and medicine...
- ohokyeah, on 09/03/2008, -0/+15"Drill here, drill now."
- Drkgodess, on 09/03/2008, -1/+15Science prevails!
- Gloony, on 09/03/2008, -0/+14America went off track with science a long time ago - only the raft of German technology obtained during/after the war combined with "War Debts" owed by the allies to the US propped up an ailing and tired economy pretty-much made devoid of innovation and promising engineers by the pursuit of unsurpassed capitalism.
What America needs is less pursuit of wealth and more pursuit of science/engineering/medical excellence. - renagadex2, on 09/03/2008, -0/+14they are tidbits of his real lengthy answers. It's linked in the article and here:
http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id= ... - nomonkey, on 09/03/2008, -2/+16If you don't appreciate and respect what Obama did there, you are almost certainly a useless ideologue.
That is unprecedented, really.
Agree or disagree with anything else he stands for, that was the kind of thing we should demand from any serious candidate, but they are all too ***** to do it. Remember Bush's "science" answers four and eight years ago? - superfusion, on 09/03/2008, -4/+17Science: I'd hit it.
- fasda, on 09/03/2008, -1/+14Science questions eh? ok which molecule has the more acidic proton ethyl acteo-acetate or a protanate Imine
- carinishead, on 09/03/2008, -0/+13I agree with Fearless Freep here. While I do agree that his answers were fantastic, this doesn't seem realistic at all given the current state of affairs. Barack says over and over again that he'll solve these issues by increasing funding and starting new programs, but we must realize, this is a man who also wants to fund healthcare for everyone in addition to several other costly programs. Our government has been spending and spending for so long now that we have an incredible budget deficit and are so in debt that it isn't even funny anymore. Where will this money come from? I agree it would be nice to just give more money to science, but we need to solve our economic problems first before we start throwing more money around. It will only hurt the value of the dollar more and more and increase interest rates more and more and hurt our economy more and more.
I still like him more than McCain though, haha... - MixMastaKooz, on 09/03/2008, -0/+12Yes, maybe you've overlooked the fact that corporations are closing their basic science laboratories. Bell f'in Labs is closing: a lab that won multiple Nobel prizes (For example, they invented the transistor. Thank them for being able to post your drivel.). Or, that basic science research funded by the federal government is in jeopardy.
From: http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/08/the-closing ...
"But industry-funded basic research has been on the wan for some time. In the last decade, the number of basic research papers authored by industrial researchers in peer-reviewed journals dropped 30 percent. In 1988, those researchers published almost 1000 papers on basic physics; in 2005, that number was 300.
In this climate, federal support of basic research has grown increasingly important, but it too began sliding in recent years. There have been targeted increases in federal budgets over the past few years, but during the Bell Labs heyday in the 1960s, “federal investments in R&D totaled around 2 percent of GDP, but are today about half of that,” reported Science Progress adviser John Irons earlier this year. According to the National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Indicators 2008, “industrial contributions to national R&D now far outpace Federal R&D support [but] only about 3.8% of industry-performed R&D can be classified as ‘basic’, with the remainder devoted to applied R&D.”
In this case, increasing funding is a moral and economic imperative. Without basic science research, we won't be able to have those breakthrough discoveries that lead us to new inventions and new industries. - Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -0/+12check with my staff?
- SIRBERUS, on 09/03/2008, -0/+12As a Christian, let me just say, overall, I like his responses.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+12All McCain's answers would be "It's in my book."
- warrenterr, on 09/03/2008, -0/+11or...
ScienceDebate2008: What policies will you support to ensure that America remains the world leader in innovation?
McCain: Read my books.
ScienceDebate2008: We read your books, can you please elaborate for those who have yet to read them?
McCain: It's in my books.
ScienceDebate2008: No, it's not.
McCain: [did not answer] - charliebucketts, on 09/03/2008, -0/+11He's not a Scientist. He's a rainmaker. He'll appoint science people to handle the details. Unlike conservatives who have the fox guard the henhouse,
- RanaMan, on 09/03/2008, -0/+11He may outspend the Iraq war... and I would be happy if he did... At least he would have something to show for it...
- Meatloaf42, on 09/03/2008, -1/+12Science is so important in our society. Obama is actually renewing my faith in the US. If he can deliver his promises, I will be a happy person :-)
- aedes, on 09/03/2008, -1/+11hmm... I assume by a 'protanate imine,' you mean a protonated imine?
let's see... a hydrogen that's alpha to a ketone, like in ethyl aceto-acetate would have a pka in the ballpark of 10 or so
I have no idea what the pka of a protonated imine would be - I would guess around 7 or so?
Here's one for you: which is more acidic - cysteine, or homocysteine, and why? - Laminarcissus, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10Maybe you could read the full answers?
http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id= ... - DforSpiD, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10As opposed to McCain's policies...
I'll increase spending on war and war related programs... - lonelycanuck, on 09/03/2008, -2/+12A lot of people keep bringing up the fact that he will be unable to pay for all these programs. I dont believe that at any point he said that every program mentioned will be introduced and implemented all at once.
A gradual introduction of programs over the course of an 8 year presidency is feasibly. I mean, if the current president took 8 years to tear down science, innovation, healthcare and medicine why cant we assume that the next can build them back up in 8?
As a physician and scientist, I am so damn proud to see my adopted home put forth a candidate such as this. - Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -0/+10As an atheist I like his responses too.
- powerbyidea, on 09/03/2008, -5/+15I totally agree with obama! I hope he wins :)
Here are more articles + videos on his speech
http://www.keywordwiki.com/blogs/obama - SeafoodSoop, on 09/03/2008, -1/+10Republicans can't figure out basic morality and right from wrong. How can we expect them to understand more complicated concepts like science? Or even basic reading comprehension?
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