{"id":2262,"date":"2008-02-12T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/12\/science-debate-update\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T10:45:14","slug":"science-debate-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/12\/science-debate-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Debate Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris and Sheril have been working tirelessly to make a Presidential Science Debate<\/a> happen, and there’s been real progress<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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ScienceDebate2008 is now co-sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academies, and the Council on Competitiveness. We were looking at venues, and finally settled on an offer from the Philadelphia-based Franklin Institute<\/a>–named, of course, after one of this country’s first and greatest scientists. We can’t think of a more appropriate venue.<\/p>\n

Our proposed date is April 18, 2008, which is just before the Pennyslvania primary. So any candidate who agrees to come to the event will stand the chance of improving his or her showing in this critical state. <\/p>\n

The candidates we’ve invited are (in alphabetical order): Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s a lot to like, here. They’ve drawn some attention to the sorry state of science discussion among the political elite, they’ve picked a good time and venue, and they didn’t invite Ron Paul, which pisses off annoying Internet libertoonians and their creepy neo-Confederate friends. It’s all good!<\/p>\n

The only thing they need now is for the candidates to sign on. They can use help with this, so if you have any influence over one of the candidates– well, if you have serious influence, get them to play me in basketball<\/a>, and as a bonus, they can debate science with my dog<\/a>. But if you only have ordinary-people influence, go to Chris and Sheril’s post, and check out their list of things you can do to help make the debate happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris and Sheril have been working tirelessly to make a Presidential Science Debate happen, and there’s been real progress: ScienceDebate2008 is now co-sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academies, and the Council on Competitiveness. We were looking at venues, and finally settled on an offer from the Philadelphia-based Franklin… Continue reading Science Debate Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}