{"id":1424,"date":"2008-02-10T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T19:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/10\/science-debate-two-thousand-ei\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T19:15:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T19:15:20","slug":"science-debate-two-thousand-ei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/10\/science-debate-two-thousand-ei\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Debate Two Thousand Eight in Business Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-f082db2951b4daef166220119e8a89d9-sciencedebate2008.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-f082db2951b4daef166220119e8a89d9-sciencedebate2008.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/should_there_be_a_presidential_debate_about_science.php\">Science Debate 2008<\/a> got a writeup in Business Week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When most of the Republican candidates for President proclaimed that they did not believe in evolution during a debate last year, astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss was one of many who were aghast. The Case Western University professor and best-selling author was even more upset when former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee shrugged off concerns, saying that he was running for President, not writing a middle-school curriculum. &#8220;How could being scientifically illiterate be perfectly acceptable?&#8221; Krauss asks. &#8220;No one would accept a candidate who, say, denied the Holocaust.&#8221;Instead of just fuming, Krauss seized on an idea then being proposed by screenwriter\/director Matthew Chapman to stage a Presidential campaign debate focused on science&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/content\/feb2008\/db2008028_503873.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives\">Read the rest here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Debate 2008 got a writeup in Business Week. When most of the Republican candidates for President proclaimed that they did not believe in evolution during a debate last year, astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss was one of many who were aghast. The Case Western University professor and best-selling author was even more upset when former Arkansas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/10\/science-debate-two-thousand-ei\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science Debate Two Thousand Eight in Business Week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-mY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}