Politics: U.S. presidential candidates outline their positions on science issues

Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 4 days (www.nytimes.com)

Senator Obama focused more on the government's role in supporting basic research while Senator McCain favored tax breaks for private businesses, but both candidates claim to support education, defense, federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and space. The only thing this article lacks is enough detail to see where either or both men might be weaseling. Because--they're politicians--they're going to weasel.

It is starting to look like, for the American scientific community, either candidate would be an improvement over our current situation.

Keywords: space stem cells politics funding education