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Think outside Schrodinger’s box

December 11th, 2007 at 08:59pm cicada

Can a president who is not comfortable thinking about science hope to lead instead of follow? Earlier Republican debates underscored this problem. In May, when candidates were asked if they believed in the theory of evolution, three candidates said no. In the next debate Mike Huckabee explained that he was running for president of the U.S., not writing the curriculum for an eighth-grade science book, and therefore the issue was unimportant. - Lawrence Krauss, Wall Street Journal

Sciencedebate 2008: Join a bunch of concerned and intelligent people in the call for a presidential debate on science - let’s be confident that our next leader can, at the very least, pronounce “nuclear” correctly.

In a related vein, that naughty Saint Gasoline makes me laugh and then snort, yet again:

Sadly, I think you could probably persuade politicians to use this strategy - if you could make them, or the American public, understand it. Or get them to pronounce “Schrodinger.”

Someone should ask about quantum physics at Sciencedebate 2008. . . nah. That would be mean.

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