Getting the two major party presidential candidates’ positions on major issues is often pretty difficult if one relies on the corporate media. Such media often relies on sound bites and reduces discussion of the candidates’ differences down to a few key issues–for example the Iraq War or abortion–that they perceive as being easily understood by voters. More complicated issues, such as science-related issues, rarely receive substantive coverage.
In response to this reality, a group of citizens calling themselves Science Debate 2008 launched an effort in November of 2007 to solicit responses from the major party candidates on a wide variety of science-related issues. They called for a national debate on science and while they were not able to make that happen, they have succeeded in gaining widespread support for their call and eventually were able to solicit responses from the Barack Obama and John McCain on fourteen science-related questions covering topics ranging from global warming to space exploration.
Read the full responses from both candidates.
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