Kernel Sanders

As well as 62 past winners

Source [Scientists and Engineers for America | All 2008 US Nobel Laureates in Science Endorse Obama!]


Letter of endorsement (PDF direct link)

Note that this organization only represents winners in science and medicine.

Hatuey

What kind of scientist would support a ticket with a person who believes creationism, excuse me, 'intelligent design' should be taught along with evolution? Wait don't answer that. Tons of priest in lab coats will jump up.

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RightinNYC

There were four US Nobel laureates in Science this year, not three.

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Hatuey

Wait....does this prove that our country's greatest minds are part of a left wing science conspiracy?

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RightinNYC

No, but don't let me stop you from having your fun.

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Hatuey

Because if it does then I owe aquapub an apology.

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jfuh

Well, I know how the McCain ticket will play this - elitism. Proof that Obama is elitist and is out of touch
Why does it seem that religious people always have a problem with science?

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pauleon1

Democrats should be reluctant to use this story as evidence that smart people think like they do.

It stands to reason that many scientists believe (in many cases, mistakenly) that the only way for research to come about is for governments to fund that research. They do not trust the profit motive to be a motivating force in the discovery of new scientific knowledge. As such, they rely on political candidates who plan to open up the floodgates of taxpayer monies such that their research will be funded.

Simultaneously, many of these researchers are already supported by federal funds, funds which might dry up if a more thrifty candidate is elected. It is in their best interest to support the candidate who plans to increase their funding, not the one who plans to decrease it.

This means that even the most staunch republican scientist could become an Obama supporter simply because it ensures his job will remain extant.

So, resist the urge to grow smug simply because scientists are backing Obama--it does not mean that they share your self-loathing, Marxist, collectivist, anti-American views.

That being said, I think Republicans need to be shaken violently out of their irrational alliance with those who believe that intelligent design is natural science. Unfortunately, like the Democrats, they have to have a voter base. Democrats play on minorities' fears that whitey will destroy their homes and force them to work at McDonald's for infinity. Republicans play on Fundamentalists' fears that Democrats will try to destroy Jeeeesussss! and force their children to carve pentagrams in their foreheads while listening to slipknot albums and becoming part of the New World Order. If only there were a way to keep this kind of politics from being the rule of the day....
Oh yeah, I know! Enact the Fair Tax, and vote outside the two party system! Fire them all from their positions of power and elect someone else!

Dragonfly

Woot woot.

jfuh

Then why are many scientists also entrepreneurs?

It is also in national interest to increase expenditures on funding science and technology, no other field has as much pay back as these fields do.

With one big problem, few scientists are socially conservative to support this pack of republicans.

Prove Obama is anti american or marxist.

Little disagreement here.

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