Nobel Winners Back Kerry, Say Bush Ignores Science

[UpInArms]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5476374

DENVER (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry picked up the endorsement on Monday of 48 Nobel Prize-winning scientists who attacked President Bush for "comprising our future" by shortchanging scientific research.

"The Bush administration has ignored unbiased scientific advice in the policy-making that is so important to our collective welfare," the 48 scientists, who have won Nobels in chemistry, physics and medicine dating back to 1967, said in an open letter released by the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign.

The scientists, who included 2003 chemistry winners Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon, accused the Bush administration of undermining America's future by reducing funding for science and turning away scientific talent with restrictive immigration policies.

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"Only John Kerry would declare the country to be in scientific decline on a day when the country's first privately funded space trip is successfully completed," said Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt.

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Guess Steve Schmidt doesn't understand government policies versus private enterprise. What an imbecile.

[Piperay]

1. "Only John Kerry would declare the country to be in scientific decline"

sounds like it is not "only" Kerry that is saying that but the science community also, duh.

[struggle4progress]

3. Wow. Private companies do a half-baked copy of Glenn's flight,

forty years later. That's really innovative, ain't it?

[grytpype]

7. Really.

Wake me up when a private company lands a man on the moon.

[DesolationRow]

8. He would have mentioned that fact but,

he is ignoring them so didn't know.

Pretty damn funny when you think of it.

[DrWeird]

2. "Only John Kerry would declare scientific decline"

and 48 Nobel lauerates, and the American Chemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the journals Nature, and Science, and the magazine Scientific American, but we flew to space SO STOP SAYING THAT!

[uptown ruler]

4. does bush know any science?

Spreading The Word
The Irony Curtain Shop

[Massacure]

5. Sure he does. He knows the Science of Christianity

Everyone knows babies are not alive before they are born.
Everyone knows humans were made by good 10,000 years ago.
Everyone knows evolution is fake.

:eyes:

[steely]

9. And as a Frat boy, he knew some Kemsitry...

He knew what 2-Methyl-3ß-hydroxy-1aH,5aH-tropane-2ß-carboxylate benzoate (ester) is.

[Auntie Bush]

6. Bush has always ignored science. Someone ought to check

on his science grades in high school and college. Bet he failed! Why should he be expected to know anything about science today?
The man's a no nothing understand nothing idiot!

[Stuckinthebush]

10. Smart People For Kerry!

No kidding....

Of course, the GOP is very anti-intellectual anyway. I'm sure the pretty blond news readers at FOX News will have some witty jokes about geeks for Kerry.

Har Har.

[Journeyman]

11. I keep thinking about the old Adlai Stevenson quote. . .

A woman in the crowd yelled out at him:

Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!

And Stevenson replied:

That's not enough, madam. We need a majority!

[struggle4progress]

12. It's a funny anecdote but I bet it hurt him at the polls. eom

[Journeyman]

14. I've often wondered that. . .

but never learned what the public's response was.

[Barkley]

13. Great quote Journeyman! Thanks - n/t