Very disappointing indeed.
The web site is back up with a new invitation!!!!
http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=29
I do see that the second invitation for a forum will be moderated by
PBS's David Brancaccio to be held in May at Portland State University
in Oregon. Let's hope this will be at a more "politically convenient"
time for the candidates. Certainly the moderator will push for it on
NPR/PBS.
On 2008-04 -08, at 14:25 , Paul Trusten wrote:
And someone here said that metrication a "third rail" in U.S.
politics? How about science itself?
I'm also sad to report that the Web site sciencedebate2008.com has
been dissembled.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Clinton and Obama will debate faith but not science
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:38:42 -0500
From: "Shawn Otto - ScienceDebate2008 team"
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Clinton and Obama will debate faith but not science
Dear Paul,
I am sorry to send two emails in such short succession, but I
thought you should know that after declining our invitation to
debate science in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
yesterday agreed to attend "The Compassion Forum," a forum of "wide-
ranging and probing discussions of policies related to moral
issues." CNN will serve as the exclusive broadcaster of the
"presidential-candidate forum on faith, values and other current
issues" at Messiah College near Harrisburg, Pa., April 13 at 8
p.m. You can read more here.
Perhaps among the moral issues discussed should be whether they
have a moral obligation to more fully engage on science issues,
since the future viability of the planet may hang in the balance,
for starters. Is there a larger moral imperative? How about the
future economic health of the United States and the prosperity of
its families? Science & engineering have driven half our economic
growth since WWII, yet but 2010 if trends hold 90% of all
scientists and engineers will live in Asia. Then there are the
moral questions surrounding the health of our families with stem
cell research, genomics, health insurance policy, and medical
research. There's biodiversity loss and the health of the oceans
and the morality of balancing destruction of species against human
needs and expenses, there's population and development and clean
energy research, there's food supply and GMO crops and educating
children to compete in the new global economy and securing
competitive jobs. Science issues are moral issues.
I would encourage you to write letters to the editor, emails to the
campaigns, and blog postings pointing this out. And if you can,
support our ongoing effort to turn this country around.
Shawn Lawrence Otto
ScienceDebate2008.com
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