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A Call For Science Policy Debate Among Presidential Candidates
Marissa Fessenden writes about a campaign to get Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address important scientific issues in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election. ScienceDebate.org and Scientific American have posed a set of questions to the candidates, as well as congressional leaders, and they're rallying support for those questions to be answered before the election. The responses will be published and graded for citizens to see. The questions include topics such as biosecurity, climate change, the safety of food and water supplies, vaccination, and environmentally sustainable energy. This comes at a time when the basic scientific literacy of elected officials is under heavy scrutiny.
Science debates are for sophisticated and educated societies. All Romney would have to do to solidify his voting base is mention that the earth was created 6000 years ago, that humans aren't causing Global Warming, and that corn is healthy as a staple crop and answer to our oil needs.
And who would believe a Muslim illegal immigrant invader like Barack Hussein Osama (being sarcastic).
In a race with almost all scientists part of one party's ideology, and those rejecting science in favor of religion in the other party, I really don't see how a science debate will help either candidate.
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