I'm pleased to announce the Top American Science Questions in 2012.
Earlier this year, we asked you to submit your ideas for the most
important science and engineering questions the candidates for
president should answer. We took your hundreds of suggestions and
had extensive internal debates about them.
We then worked with fourteen leading US science and engineering
organizations over several meetings to refine the list, develop
consistent wording, and discuss which questions truly were the most
critical in 2012 from a federal policy perspective. Some that were
on the list in 2008 fell off this year, some were added, and some changed.
Amazingly, we were able to draw this very diverse group of science
organizations together into a universal consensus on these
questions. This underscores just how important the questions really are.
As in 2008, we have submitted the questions to the top two
presidential campaigns and have asked for responses. Scientific
American has agreed to dedicate their November issue to this project
and the candidates' responses, and we need as much other coverage as
possible, especially from those of you who are bloggers and
reporters, or who are organizational or media supporters of the
science debate project.
Please visit our site to see the questions
here.
<http://www.sciencedebate.org/questions.html>http://www.sciencedebate.org/questions.html
View the press release
here.
<http://www.sciencedebate.org/questionsrelease2012.html>http://www.sciencedebate.org/questionsrelease2012.html
Please blog, tweet, facebook, google+, linked in, and report on this
everywhere you can.
And please consider <http://www.sciencedebate.org/donate.html>making
a donation to offset the cost of this critical and labor-intensive
work to raise the profile of science and engineering in our national dialogue.
Thank you!
Best,
-Shawn Otto and the team at <http://www.ScienceDebate.org>ScienceDebate.Org
