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is pleased to announce
Innovation 2008

Today we released Innovation 2008: 14 Questions the candidates for President should answer about Science & America’s Future.
We started with more than 3,300 questions submitted by our 38,000 signers. We worked with 11 other organizations representing millions of voters to winnow them into the top 14 questions the [...]

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Just a brief post to share an email I received this afternoon from Shawn Otto and the ScienceDebate2008 team:
85% of Americans Want a Presidential Debate on Science
Democrats, Republicans agree on need, disagree on issues; health care tops list
Click here for charts of this data
WASHINGTON—May 12, 2008— A new poll shows that 85% of U.S. adults [...]

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The invitations have been sent out. The debate will be held in Philadelphia on April 18th. Read more about it in Andrew Revkin’s NYTimes blog, Dot Earth.

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The National Academies just issued the following:
February 4 — The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine are joining the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Carnegie Institution, the Council on Competitiveness, and several other organizations and universities in an effort to co-sponsor a presidential candidate debate on [...]

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