Reading the many insightful diaries here on Daily Kos during election time can leave me feeling like some poor kid home schooled by the far right sitting in on a friendly discussion of
Laplace Transforms. But I bet most of my more politically astute peers would agree with me that the process
of science produces the closest thing to black and white available in the fuzzy invisible interface between the fixed natural world of objective reality and the ever shifting kaleidoscope of subjective human acuity. In elections past, perhaps both parties were equally guilty, or correspondingly commendable, in their respective potential to preserve and nurture science. But as of late, the mutually exclusive choice reduces to either a crystal clear antiscience ideology
or the reality-based approach. Sadly, the credibility gap between the two seems to be growing wider with each passing day.
From the Scientists and Engineers for America:
The executive directors of SEForA add a special request for those of you who practice science:
To maximize your ability to help those candidates you support, please consider closing your lab or office on Election Day (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7), or taking the day off to encourage your colleagues, friends, and family to vote.
All commerce, all business, all industry, every man, women, and child in this nation and beyond, each and every service person in harm's way, all are critically dependent on the applications that flow from science, on every day and in every way, for their health, welfare, food, safety; for their very lives. It shouldn't even be a political issue. But it is.
When in doubt, vote for truth: Vote for Science.