Obama zet Sci/Tech lijnen uit

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19 september 2008 | Illinois’ senator Barack Obama strives to become the president of the USA for the Democratic party. The former editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review is worried about global trends in science and technology “The U.S. ranks 17th among developed nations in the proportion of college students receiving degrees in science or engineering; we were in third place thirty years ago. My administration will increase funding for basic research in physical and life sciences, mathematics, and engineering at a rate that would double basic research budgets over the next decade.”

He has answered the 14 most most pressing questions on science and technology, put before him by Sciencedebate 2008, just as his Republican rival Senator McCain has done. You find these answers here on such topics as climate change, energy, oceans and water, genetics, scientific integrity, as well as the education of science and its weak spots.
1. Innovation Science and technology have been responsible for half of the growth of the American ec
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