The Candidates on Matters of Science

[ursangnome]

Scientific American and ScienceDebate.org partnered to get Obama and Romney to answer 14 questions on major scientific and technological challenges facing the nation. You can read their answers at the link, and decide what you think of them yourself.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=obama-romney-science-debate

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Couldn't read it - felt my breakfast coming up. :-)

[umbran.livejournal.com]

It is never good to consume politics directly after meals.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link!

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Just doing my part to educate the masses!

[spiritdancer]

Oh, dear.

It's pretty bad when my eyes start to glaze over about 1/3 of the way thru Mr Romney's first response (which was twice as long as Mr Obama's, with rather less than half the actual substance). Then the trend repeated.

I'll try to read a bit more later, but there is only so much bull**** I can take at a given time :)

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Oh, I expect my eyes to glaze over reading any campaign copy. Basic hazard of living in a democratic society.

Romney on Net Neutrality

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

"Specifically, the FCC’s "Net Neutrality" regulation represents an Obama campaign promise fulfilled on behalf of certain special interests, but ultimately a “solution” in search of a problem. The government has now interjected itself in how networks will be constructed and managed, picked winners and losers in the marketplace, and determined how consumers will receive access to tomorrow’s new applications and services. The Obama Administration’s overreaching has replaced innovators and investors with Washington bureaucrats."

Wow. I'm just... ...wow. My head is spinning with this spin.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

I find it hilarious that the campaign would think that one would fly with anyone going to scientificamerican.com to read their answers.

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Special interests ≈ your readers.

The spin... it burns!

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

I find Mitt's answer to 13 particularly terrifying. In the end, neither of them did particularly well, imo. *sigh*

[umbran.livejournal.com]

In the world as it is right now, I wouldn't expect these things to be high priority (they wanted this to be live-debate, but the campaigns would only go for written answers). So, I'm looking not for where they do well, but where they do badly.

Yes, Mitt's views of energy policy seem pretty short sighted.