Vote on the ScienceDebate 2008 Questions

Written by Jack Hassard

On September 30, 2008

In two recent posts I wrote about ScienceDebate 2008, a grassroots movement to engage the two presidential candidates in debating their views on science, science education and science in society.  I specifically discussed two of the 14 questions, question 4 on science education, and question 12 on scientific integrity.

If you recall, each candidate responded to 14 questions and provided the organizers of ScienceDebate 2008 with their replies, which you can read on the ScienceDebate 2008 website.

You can also vote on each candidates response to the 14 questions, rating Obama’s and McCain’s response on an A – F scale, and when you do, you can view immediately the results in the form of bar graphs.

I don’t want to give any of the voting away, but one candidate seems to understand the issues important to science in our society than the other.  This would be a wonderful activity to do with your students.

I recommend you go to the site, and cast a few votes.

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