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Sex, Science and the Bush Administration
Over at Mark Kleiman's old blog, now The Reality-Based Community, Mark asks two important questions (and I quote):
1. Is it possible that the combination of the South Dakota abortion law, the Plan B fiasco, and the HPV vaccine scandal can start to convince suburban "security moms" that reproductive freedom is really at risk if they keep voting Republican? How about a nice TV spot with a cervical cancer victim and a scientist in a white jacket explaining that the vaccine is ready but is being held up by bureaucrats and politicians?
A link about that vaccine: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13812775.htm
The second question?
2. Is it possible to organize scientists as an active political force? There are lots of them, and they're paid decently. They have two important sets of interests at stake: a direct material interest in funding for research and education, and what Weber called an "ideal interest" in having decisions made on scientific grounds. But they've never been mobilized. Has someone started a Science PAC?
Good questions.
1. Is it possible that the combination of the South Dakota abortion law, the Plan B fiasco, and the HPV vaccine scandal can start to convince suburban "security moms" that reproductive freedom is really at risk if they keep voting Republican? How about a nice TV spot with a cervical cancer victim and a scientist in a white jacket explaining that the vaccine is ready but is being held up by bureaucrats and politicians?
A link about that vaccine: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13812775.htm
The second question?
2. Is it possible to organize scientists as an active political force? There are lots of them, and they're paid decently. They have two important sets of interests at stake: a direct material interest in funding for research and education, and what Weber called an "ideal interest" in having decisions made on scientific grounds. But they've never been mobilized. Has someone started a Science PAC?
Good questions.