Wired reports on Obama’s Science Advisors

Published by Marcos on September 19, 2008 under General

With answers to the Science Debate 2008 questions recently provided by both campaigns, Wired has an article on Obama’s science advisors, which the campaign provided to Wired upon their request. From the article:

In response to a Wired Science follow-up, the campaign identified five people who helped draft Obama’s statement: Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate and former head of the National Institutes of Health; Gilbert Ommen, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Peter Agre, a Nobel laureate and ardent critic of the Bush administration; NASA researcher Donald Lamb; and Stanford University plant biologist Sharon Long. Republican candidate John McCain responded to the ScienceDebate2008 questions on Monday, but his campaign ignored multiple requests for the identity of its science advisors.

Science Debate 2008 Answers from both Candidates

Published by Marcos on September 15, 2008 under General

Senator McCain has answered the Science Debate 2008 questions; adding to the answer that Senator Obama provided last week. Both candidates’ answers to the 14 questions are available for reading.

Question 11 deals specifically with space, though sometimes the topic is touched upon in other answers. Senator McCain’s answer appears almost verbatim to his website’s position statement on Space. Senator Obama’s answer, similarly, is nearly identical to two paragraphs from his campaign document (PDF link) under the heading “A Comprehensive Vision.”