The Candidates on Matters of Science
Sep. 5th, 2012 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=obama-romney-science-debate
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Date: 2012-09-05 05:58 pm (UTC)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 :)
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Date: 2012-09-05 10:35 pm (UTC)Romney on Net Neutrality
Date: 2012-09-05 07:17 pm (UTC)Wow. I'm just... ...wow. My head is spinning with this spin.
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Date: 2012-09-05 11:46 pm (UTC)The spin... it burns!
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Date: 2012-09-06 03:11 pm (UTC)Yes, Mitt's views of energy policy seem pretty short sighted.