Category: Science

(via email and Nature) Barack Obama’s Science and Technology Advisers: Harold Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Henry Kelly, Federation of American Scientists Don Lamb, University of Chicago Gil Omenn, University of Michigan Sharon Long, Stanford University Dan Kammen, University of California, Berkeley Jason Grumet, Bipartisan Policy Center John McCain’s Science and Technology Advisers: James Woolsey, … Continue reading “Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s Science and Technology Advisers”

Statement about John McCain’s Comments at the Presidential Debate Last night, during the presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, Senator John McCain made the following statement: McCain: “While we were working to eliminate these pork barrel earmarks he (Senator Obama) voted for nearly $1 billion in pork barrel earmark projects. Including $3 million for an overhead … Continue reading “McCain’s ‘overhead projector’ Lie”

(via What’s new by Bob Park – Friday, September 5, 2008) 2. DEBATE: DID “SCIENCE” GET A MENTION IN ST. PAUL? Last week we did a word search for “science” in Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver. We thought it unfortunate that Obama made only a single reference to science. As you have surely noticed, … Continue reading “GOP and Science”

(via Pharyngula) “Academic freedom” bill promoting creationism has been approved by their senate committee.

(via What’s new by Bob Park – Friday, February 22, 2008) 2. ANTISATELLITE WEAPONS: THE HYDRAZINE DECEPTION. What do you do when a newly-emergent space power shows off its new anti- satellite capability, as China did last year? Well, you have to show that you too can shoot down a satellite. It’s relatively easy – … Continue reading “Rampaging Tank of Hydrazine”