Early - career scientists and engineers may be understandably apprehensive about change in Washington, particularly since «attention to
science during the presidential campaign was neither appreciable nor appreciative,» wrote Holt for Motherboard.
Not exact matches
AAAS will work with other
science organizations to inject a
science question into the 2016
presidential debates, and to counter any scientific misinformation that arises
during the
campaigns, he said.
None of them was more active than the Union of Concerned Scientists, which produced its first report on «the politicization of
science» in 2004 and which helped make scientific integrity an issue
during the 2008
presidential campaign.
We call for the two main
presidential candidates — Pres. Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney to address
science and technology policy
during the 2012
campaign.
During the past two
presidential campaigns, efforts were made by the
science and engineering communities to engage candidates in a «user - friendly»
science policy conversation not designed to be a debate (questions were to be provided in advance and «contentious» issues were off limits).
Yesterday, 375 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, posted an open letter reviewing the basics of established climate
science, decrying claims of hoax and hype spouted by Republicans
during the
presidential campaign and warning against the United States pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
He had been an adviser to the Obama
campaign and was a member of the
presidential science and technology advisory committee
during the Clinton administration.