Dear Bill, I fully agree with you, awareness has to be spread and one should not ignore politics completely, especially when there are so strong anti-intellectual (anti-science) statements out there.
best regards Marjolein On 10 Nov 2016, at 04:17, William G. Scott <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear Edward et al: I agree we shouldn’t engage in partisan arguments on the CCP4bb. However, I think it is a mistake, and perhaps a missed opportunity, to ignore politics completely. For example, Newt Gingrich is currently in the running for Sec HHS. He has previously written editorials in the NYT and Wall Street Journal advocating doubling the budget of the NIH. I think it is incumbent upon us to make our voices heard if such an opportunity arises, regardless of what one may happen to think about the individual’s political orientation, as it could potentially be of enormous benefit to the scientific community. Yours faithfully, William G. Scott Director, Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064 USA http://scottlab.ucsc.edu On Nov 9, 2016, at 9:02 AM, Edward Snell <[email protected]> wrote: As a Brexit and Trumpet affected person having a foot in both countries ,this topic is too far off the normal discussion on CCP4 and probably better taken up privately. CCP4 is not a political discussion site. With CCP4 the signal is unusually high and the noise low when compared to any discussion board. I for one would like to keep it there. Political views aside, we’re all trying to achieve the same scientific goals. Let’s remember that and keep that the focus. Edward Snell Ph.D. President and CEO Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Assistant Prof. Department of Structural Biology, University at Buffalo 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203-1102 Phone: (716) 898 8631 Fax: (716) 898 8660 Skype: eddie.snell Email: [email protected] <image003.png> Heisenberg was probably here! [cid:3A2194AC-734C-45EB-B5A7-CE7FC0F0F1BC] Dr. Marjolein Thunnissen Head User Office MAX IV Laboratory Lund University P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Visiting address: Fotongatan 2, 225 94 Lund Telephone: +46 46 2224668 Mobile: +46 766 32 04 17 www.maxliv.lu.se<http://www.maxlab.lu.se/>
