Americans Think Science Will Save the Economy

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BusinessNewsDaily Staff

Date: 06 January 2012 Time: 09:53 AM ET


What does your average American think is the key to economic recovery? Science, according to new research.

According to a compilation of polls, science have benefited society and have helped make life easier for most people. A vast majority (91 percent) also believe that research and development are important to their state's economy.

However, nearly 60 percent of Americans don't believe we are making enough progress in medical research, and 54 percent don't believe the U.S. has the best health care system in the world. Additionally, most believe the lack of progress is affecting America's ability to be competitive, with 77 percent saying that the U.S. is losing its competitive edge in science, technology and innovation.

"Americans support further investment in health research and have indicated that the federal government must do more to sustain and build our economy," said Research!America chair and former Illinois Congressman John Porter, head of the organization that conducted the polls. "Scientific research has proven to be an emerging, economic driver in cities that have committed to building their life sciences industry. To secure our position as a leader in science and innovation, we need to elect officials that will support a robust investment in research. That is why the 2012 elections are critical to our nation's well-being."


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And yet they vote for t-baggers and other repukes. again and again.

[rurallib]

2. To reiterate what you said - odd they would elect anti-science politicians then

ones who make science education hard to obtain and who ignore scientific findings

[customerserviceguy]

5. Americans are fine with science

until it contradicts their irrational religious beliefs. A GPS in your car doesn't necessarily insult anyone's invisible skyfather.

[zbdent]

3. Good luck with Republicans running the whole shebang ...

[wandy]

4. And this is why the 2012 elections are so crucial.

Any time scince becomes so advance that the common man can not understand it it is considered magic. Some proof of this is shown in the way congress is dealing with the internet. It goes something like this. The wizzard Disney is being robbed. He has paid us to protect him, so forget this 'MAC Address' mumbo jumbo and censor the internet to protect the wizzard. A considerable portion of our poupulation beleive that all things were created, directly, by god. Within a short jump of illogic it becomes reasonable to believe things created by man are 'bad'. They would happly site things like the birth controll pill, prenatel care, concerns about Internet porn when blabing away into their iPhone. That I like is a gift from god. That I don't like is evil. Do you know that in some countries they still believe in demonic posession?
So if we loose the dream that all children should have the oppertinuity for higher education. If we allow our public education system to be destroyed. If we continue to believe that it can only be god's will, without the help of man. How long will it be before those that can fix a car will be burned as a witch.

[Demeter]

6. Science?

That fact-based, reality-driven, mathematics-intensive, logically formulated activity of eggheads? The stuff that ordinary people can't or won't even try to get an understanding of? The bane of every religious movement? That science?

I'd like somebody to prove it to me, in the way that matters--dollars in the schools and scholarships, jobs in the 'hood, legislation on the docket, and democracy to bring the blessings of science upon us all, especially in Universal, single-payer, government supported healthcare. And NO Corporate sucking at the teat.

Otherwise, it ain't real.