[Nhcoll-l] FW: Gary Johnson Presidential Science Answers

Tue Sep 20 10:19:24 EDT 2016

Dear NHColl members,

SPNHC was one of the interdisciplinary groups of scientific organizations that was a signatory on the presidential science questions posed to the four presidential candidates.  Answers have been received from Gary Johnson, which means that all invited presidential candidates have now responded (please follow links below).

From: Shawn Otto - ScienceDebate.Org [mailto:shawn at sciencedebate.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 6:31 AM
To: Ford, Linda S. <lford at oeb.harvard.edu>
Subject: Gary Johnson Presidential Science Answers

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U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions
Responses from Gary Johnson complete perspective on all four candidates' views

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2016 -All four major candidates for United States president have now responded to ScienceDebate.org's Top 20 Presidential Science, Engineering, Technology, Health and Environmental  Questions. Governor Gary Johnson provided late responses which the group has posted with those of Clinton, Trump, and Stein at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sciencedebate.org_20answers&d=CwIFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=foKJbT3BYDJf8EhOwSJpueqmD8qPbXxOakxr9bIUi5A&s=PNdUzjY2zJqPyjZkpyppohPWhAK2ssVyVMIsnpQ9hCA&e= <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sciencedebate.org_20answers&d=CwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=_EekXyDnqyDJbjUVvAb_UJolU-631fxKk78iqckD60k&m=NXGaPnBvhIoW51FJqPg-ZiJAfbIVms7QECh7dUtUdGU&s=C8e6qRZyq3jdPcqLsW7Bg3Wr8MFgv0ACSI0HyHweo08&e=>. (Individual answers can be jumped to by appending "#1" through "#20" to the link.)

"It is a truism that to be fair and just, policy decisions should be based on evidence," said Shawn Otto, chair of the grassroots initiative and author of The War on Science<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_War-2DScience-2DWaging-2DMatters-2DAbout_dp_1571313532&d=CwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=_EekXyDnqyDJbjUVvAb_UJolU-631fxKk78iqckD60k&m=NXGaPnBvhIoW51FJqPg-ZiJAfbIVms7QECh7dUtUdGU&s=SLwL9tbyqA6_zBPG_L2a4YJl-y8rtdvEHvV_-Uo7dEw&e=>. "This is a notion that America's founders held dear. The candidates' responses provide a window into the role evidence from science plays in their decision making."

But, Otto said, the responses also beg further questions. "Now we need journalists and the public to press these candidates for more specifics. How reasonable are their proposals, given the known evidence? What relative roles do ideology and evidence seem to play in their thinking? These are important considerations in electing an executive who will have the power to set policy, guide and enforce regulations, influence research investments, sign treaties, inspire students, encourage innovation, approve laws, manage immigration, and commit soldiers to battle."

A 2015 national poll<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sciencedebate.org_Poll2015&d=CwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=_EekXyDnqyDJbjUVvAb_UJolU-631fxKk78iqckD60k&m=NXGaPnBvhIoW51FJqPg-ZiJAfbIVms7QECh7dUtUdGU&s=bZ9uyzQzgNyGuhGoxlTh8Tz4xY9Zk33GWR4t9JEqlfQ&e=> commissioned by ScienceDebate.org and Research!America revealed that a large majority of Americans (87%) agree, saying that it is important that candidates for President and Congress have a basic understanding of the science informing public policy issues.

On August 10, a blue-ribbon coalition of fifty-six leading U.S. nonpartisan organizations, representing more than 10 million scientists and engineers, in called on U.S. Presidential candidates to address the questions, and encouraged journalists and voters to press the candidates on them during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election season.

The consortium crowd-sourced and refined hundreds of suggestions, then submitted "the 20 most important, most immediate questions" to the Presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein, "along with an invitation to the candidates to answer them in writing and to discuss them on television," said Otto.

In both 2008 and 2012, Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney participated.

The list of organizations supporting the issue discussion is a who's who of the American science enterprise.

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**ScienceDebate.org

*American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association of Geographers

*American Chemical Society

American Fisheries Society

American Geophysical Union

*American Geosciences Institute

*American Institute of Biological Sciences

American Institute of Professional Geologists

American Rock Mechanics Association

American Society for Engineering Education

American Society of Agronomy

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

American Society of Mammalogists

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Association for Women Geoscientists

Association of Ecosystem Research Centers

Automation Federation

*Biophysical Society

Botanical Society of America

Carnegie Institution for Science

Conservation Lands Foundation

Crop Science Society of America

Duke University

Ecological Society of America

Geological Society of America

*IEEE-USA

International Committee Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Materials Research Society

NACE International, The Worldwide Corrosion Authority

*National Academy of Engineering

*National Academy of Medicine

*National Academy of Sciences

National Cave and Karst Research Institute

*National Center for Science Education

National Ground Water Association

Natural Science Collections Alliance

Northeastern University

Organization of Biological Field Stations

Paleontological Society

*Research!America

Scientific American magazine

Seismological Society of America

*Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

Society for Science & the Public

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

Society of Fire Protection Engineers

Society of Wetland Scientists

Society of Women Engineers

Soil Science Society of America

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Tufts University

*Union of Concerned Scientists

University City Science Center

*U.S. Council on Competitiveness

The Wildlife Society

World Endometriosis Research Foundation America

*Supplied experts to the questions development process
**Lead organizer

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