Best '08 candidate for science?

[j-weezy]

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Who do you think is the current 2008 candidate most likely to support science (and funding)?

Me: Mike Huckabee










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[seraph524]

I want whoever supports Scientology to be taught in public schools.

 

[Doctor&Geek]

Science magazine feature on candidate positions on science policy:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/319/5859/22

 

[j-weezy]

Science magazine feature on candidate positions on Science

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/319/5859/22

well there goes my thread!!

lol. thanks anyways - sometimes i wonder if you're secretly seeded in the SDN audience to plug Science - not that it isn't a good journal...how often do you read it?

 

[OncDoc19]

well there goes my thread!!

lol. thanks anyways - sometimes i wonder if you're secretly seeded in the SDN audience to plug Science - not that it isn't a good journal...how often do you read it?

Actually an MD/PhD student in my lab showed that statistically the quality of the journal inversely correlates with the quality of the protein structure for papers featuring x-ray crystallography structure determination.

 

[seraph524]

Actually an MD/PhD student in my lab showed that statistically the quality of the journal inversely correlates with the quality of the protein structure for papers featuring x-ray crystallography structure determination.

lol really?

 

[OncDoc19]

lol really?

Yeah - I know, scary right? But it turns out that the big journals are more likely to have bad structures even to the point of alpha helices turning the wrong direction. Apparently the errors are pretty egregious.

 

[jlamacc1]

Who do you think is the current 2008 candidate most likely to support science (and funding)?

Me: Mike Huckabee










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Good pick in the domain of {7 days>Darwin}