McCain, too, addresses "the quiet crisis"

Thank you Senator McCain for joining Senator Obama in answering ScienceDebate.com’s "14 top science questions facing America." (See my earlier post on the organization’s efforts and BioOptics World’s own reporting on the candidates’ science and technology positions.)

Thank you Senator McCain for joining Senator Obama in answering ScienceDebate.com’s "14 top science questions facing America." (See my earlier post on the organization’s efforts and BioOptics World’s own reporting on the candidates’ science and technology positions.)

Thanks too to Senator Obama, who earlier heeded the request—but thanks mostly to ScienceDebate.com for encouraging this important discussion among the presidential contenders. The group has done a nice job of setting up the answers of the two presidential hopefuls side by side so that you can easily compare. Further, ScienceDebate.com has invited both nominees to participate in a televised forum to cover vital issues in front of a broader audience.

With all the urgencies currently facing America, it may be easy to lose sight of the issue that Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, so aptly called “the quiet crisis” in her 2005 speech, The Quiet Crisis and the Future of American Competitiveness. We do so at our peril, though, and ScienceDebate.com is working to spread that message beyond the scientific community already well aware.