{"id":22902,"date":"2016-09-13T10:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=22902"},"modified":"2016-09-13T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:43:48","slug":"science-questions-for-the-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/science-questions-for-the-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Questions for the Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

ScienceDebate.org <\/strong><\/a>is an organization that, for years now, has been pushing to get the candidates running for President of the United States to engage in a debate over science policy, just as they debate foreign policy, or economic policy, etc.<\/p>\n

And, ScienceDebate.org has had some success. Some of the candidates, at the primary level, have engaged in such a debate, and at the national level, some of the candidates have contributed written answers to citizen-generated questions about science policy.<\/p>\n

And now, they’ve done it again.<\/p>\n

The four main candidates (two actual main candidates and two “third party” candidates) were provided with several science policy related questions. Three of the candidates have provided answers.<\/p>\n

The entire project is to be found HERE<\/a>. There are 20 questions.<\/p>\n

I’m still going through them. If you have comments on any, please post them, I’d love to hear what you think.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think Trump’s answer on climate change was probably written by Bjorn Lomborg. Or, cribbed form something he wrote.<\/p>\n

(I suppose someone should be running these answers through a plagiarism checker???)<\/p>\n

Gary Johnson apparently has nothing to say about science policy. That makes sense. He’s a Libertarian, and Libertarians don’t believe in science policy.<\/p>\n

Jill Stein gave an interesting answer on Vaccines.<\/p>\n

Trump wants to stop the inflow of opioids into the United States. He may not have understood the question.<\/p>\n

The word “wall” does not appear among the answers, though Immigration is asked about.<\/p>\n

Interesting answers on space as well.<\/p>\n

Go look. Report back! <\/a><\/p>\n

And, if you’ve not seen this, enjoy:<\/p>\n