48 Nobel Prize Winning Scientists Endorse Kerry

[Dover]

Kerry Pledges to Once Again Make America the Leader in Science; 48 Nobel Prize Winning Scientists Endorse Kerry for President

6/21/2004

DENVER, June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Kicking off a week focused on his plan to make the American economy stronger at home through scientific discovery, technology and innovation, Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry today pledged to lift up families and create new jobs by once again making America the world leader in science. While the Bush administration has politicized science, Kerry will put America back on the path of scientific excellence with a commitment to scientific research based on fact -- not ideology.

Kerry was also endorsed in a letter Monday by 48 Nobel Prize winning scientists. The scientists issued a letter calling Kerry a "clear choice for America's next President" who will "restore science to its appropriate place in government and bring it back into the White House." (Text of the Letter and List of Scientists Below)

With American families struggling in an economy that has failed to lift them up, scientific discovery has the potential to make us stronger at home by lowering health care costs, developing new technologies that will create good paying jobs and curing disease. However, to realize this potential and strengthen our country, Kerry stressed today that we need a President committed to science and encouraging innovation.

"The American people deserve a President who understands that when America invests in science and technology and higher education, we can build a new and stronger economy for the 21st century," Kerry said.

For three years, the Bush administration has squandered America's leadership in the world, putting politics before science and doing nothing to create jobs while our workers fall further behind. The administration has proposed cuts for scientific research and grossly distorted and politicized science on issues from mercury pollution to stem cell research. This approach not only limits the research that our scientists are doing today, it undermines important discoveries of tomorrow and threatens America's critical edge in innovation.

Kerry's plan will reverse this course by restoring America's scientific leadership, helping find new cures, cutting health care costs and developing new technologies that will create good jobs....cont'd >

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[Jay Bradfield]

1. Great news

let's hope the Democrats around the country play this up. Democrats need to start highlighting their differences with Republicans not just trying lamely to copy the GOP.

One diff is that smart people vote Dem. Not that they should go out and say that but they should certainly imply it.

[goclark]

2. I agree, great news

IMO smart people are Democrats. Repubs let others think for them and tell them how to think.
Wouldn't it be beautiful for Science to really mean something again! That would be magnificent in this, the 21st Century.

Bushco has taken us back to the stone age.

[BurtWorm]

3. As if they'd endorse Bush!

;)

[Wickerman]

4. Oh no, kiss of death

Smart people like Kerry - that so turns off Republicans. They like their pols dumb and loud - fat and greasy.











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