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Nature 451, 1050 (28 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/4511050a; Published online 27 February 2008

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Political debate: science will be the loser

Daniel Sarewitz1

  1. Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA

David Goldston appropriately demolishes the idea of a US presidential candidate debate on science, in his Column 'A debatable proposition' (Nature 451, 621; 2008). It's hard to imagine anything worse for the cause of science than to subject it to the sort of high-profile demagogic posturing now reserved for immigration, medical care, social security, the economic downturn and the war in Iraq.

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