Science quiz
Britain's New Scientist has some questions for Americans and their Presidential candidates:
Go to the main story link to click these individually.
- Should governments play politics with science?
Never have objective science and the business of politics been so much at odds
- America: Bomb builders or peacemakers?
Perception is everything when it comes to the proliferation of nuclear weapons
- Cool cash will help slow global warming.
Global treaties are not the only way to tackle climate change - markets can do their bit too
- In 50 years, we could cure our oil addiction.
The technologies to deliver clean, sustainable energy already exist. So what is stopping us breaking the habit of a century, asks David L. Chandler
- Who should steer the modern global ark?
American money and expertise is the difference between survival and extinction for many of the world's endangered plants and animals
- Globalisation: The good, the bad and the ugly.
Globalisation is happening whether we like it or not. The question now is whether everyone should play by the same rules
- America: Closed for new scientific business?
Once America welcomed scientific talent wherever it came from and we all benefited. Now visitors are greeted with suspicion
- US abortion policy: A healthy strategy for whom?
A hard-line policy on abortion is undermining America's entire global strategy on health
- The US battle over stem cells.
In four years' time the arguments over stem cell research may look very different
These are all provocative questions which are going to require answers at some point. Why not now, in the heat of a US election?
Posted by Linkmeister at October 13, 2004 12:09 PM