{"id":1750,"date":"2007-12-10T22:30:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T05:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2007-12-10T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T05:30:31","slug":"presidential-candidates-science-technology-and-energy-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/12\/10\/presidential-candidates-science-technology-and-energy-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Candidate's Science, Technology, and Energy Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new initiative to get a presidential debate on issues of science and technology: Science Debate 2008<\/a> (list of supporting Important People<\/a> (capital letters) and bloggers<\/a> (no capital letters).) I’m all for the idea, since I know little about the candidates positions related to science and technology. Which of course, is a bad excuse, and thus led me to try to dig deep into the intertubes and see if I could find a list of the candidates positions on science and technology.
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\nHere is a collection of some of the relevant links I could find. For some candidates it was quite hard to find any actual stances on science\/technology\/energy (I’ve added energy since this is often where the candidate talks about global warming and green technology.) Anyone who has more pointers to good content on the candidate’s positions, please comment! After trying to find the relevant comments by candidates, I think I support the idea of a science\/technology debate even more. With a few exceptions, these two issues are definitely not highlighted by the candidates, and seeing as how science\/technology has probably had the biggest effect on our lives over the last century, I’d hope the candidates would have a little more to say than what I’ve found.
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