A look at today’s science and health policy news:
Obama Goes on the Record on Science. (Hint: He’s All For It)
Discover–Scientists & Engineers for America (SEA), who, along with a group of other science and engineering organizations, put together 14 questions for each candidate. The first set of responses, from Obama’s camp, are now online.
John Cornyn likes McCain’s call for big shift on health care
Dallas Morning News–Sen. John Cornyn has endorsed John McCain’s proposal to try to shift health insurance towards being a commodity that virtually all Americans purchase as individuals and families in the private marketplace.
Energy said to top a President McCain’s policy list
Reuters–John McCain would spend his first 100 days as president focused on energy policy, his economic adviser said on Tuesday.
Palin has not pushed creation science as governor
A.P.–As a candidate for governor, Sarah Palin called for teaching creationism alongside evolution in public schools. But after Alaska voters elected her, Palin, now Republican John McCain’s presidential running mate, kept her campaign pledge to not push the idea in the schools.
EPA criticizes Transportation Department on fuel economy standards
L.A. Times–The Environmental Protection Agency says another arm of the Bush administration may be low-balling the economic benefits of increasing fuel economy standards for cars and trucks.
Bush uses Gustav to hit Dems on energy
The Hill–President Bush on Tuesday said that the threat of hurricanes to the Gulf Coast’s energy production offers more proof that Democrats should “step up” their efforts to increase domestic energy exploration.
Clones’ offspring may be in food supply: FDA
Reuters–Food and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may have entered the U.S. food supply, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, but it would be impossible to know because there is no difference between cloned and conventional products.
Pawlenty: Education key to U.S. standing
Minnesota Star Tribune–Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty received a standing ovation from a largely Republican crowd on Tuesday morning after a speech about education in the United States and what needs to be done to regain America’s standing as an education leader in the world.
Mr. Bush’s Blue Legacy
N.Y. Times (Editorial)–President Bush may be on the brink of doing something stunningly at odds with his record as one of the worst environmental stewards ever to inhabit the White House.
Long-Term Ills Tied to Bad Food
Washington Post–Over the past decade, as medical experts have sought out the source of certain chronic illnesses, they have increasingly found links to episodes of food poisoning, sometimes many years beforehand, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Serious Potential in Google’s Browser
N.Y. Times–What this early version of Chrome accomplishes isn’t quite that grand. But it is a first-rate beginning.
Souring U.S.-Russia Relations Threaten Space Station
Wired–Russia’s power play in Georgia could have ramifications that extend all the way to the International Space Station.
