{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-29T18:39:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T01:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/science-and-the-candidates\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T11:45:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T18:45:54","slug":"science-and-the-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/science-and-the-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and the Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature magazine recently published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/specials\/uselection2008\/index.html\">article<\/a> that analyzed the position on and approach towards science of the two major party presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>As one excerpt, it&#8217;s interesting to  compare Obama&#8217;s Science and Technology team of advisers with McCain&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s:<br \/>\nDan Kammen, University of California, Berkeley<br \/>\nDon Lamb, University of Chicago<br \/>\nGil Omenn, University of Michigan<br \/>\nHenry Kelly, President, Federation of American Scientists<br \/>\nSharon Long, Stanford University<br \/>\nJason Grumet, Bipartisan Policy Center<br \/>\nHarold Varmus, (Nobel) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center<\/p>\n<p>McCain&#8217;s:<br \/>\nJames Schlesinger, Former secretary of defense<br \/>\nJames Woolsey, Former Central Intelligence Agency director<br \/>\nRobert McFarlane, Former national security adviser<br \/>\nCarly Fiorina, Former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard<br \/>\nMeg Whitman, Former chief executive of eBay<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand we have real scientists.  On the other hand, former CIA agents and former CEOs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature magazine recently published an article that analyzed the position on and approach towards science of the two major party presidential candidates. As one excerpt, it&#8217;s interesting to compare Obama&#8217;s Science and Technology team of advisers with McCain&#8217;s: Obama&#8217;s: Dan Kammen, University of California, Berkeley Don Lamb, University of Chicago Gil Omenn, University of Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}