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Vint Cerf and Others Form Advocacy Group

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 28, 2004 @06:35AM from the forgetting-about-the-green-party-as-usual dept.

Omega writes "Vint Cerf, father of TCP/IP, and several Nobel Prize winners have formed a 527 committee called 'Scientists and Engineers for Change.' Among their major complaints are that the Bush administration has ignored and misused scientific findings to achieve political goals and that it has stifled scientific research. While the group isn't officially endorsing Kerry, Dr. Cerf points out it's pretty obvious what their goal is."

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Re:Good Lord!! by wwcohen · 2004-09-28 07:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

Scientists should not use their status to give political affiliation a veneer of legitimacy, as our opinions are no more valid than truck drivers, shop assistants or lumberjacks.
Well, I hope truck drivers speak out on trucking, and so on. As scientists, we should speak out when the government handles science wrong, e.g., when an administration ignores scientific consensus for obviously political reasons, which has happened on numerous occasions with this administration.