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• US groups want presidential candidates to answer 20 science questions | us-presidential-election$top | Hindustan Times

  Includes question about cyber-security and privacy.

  Tags: Auction 2016, 20-quetions, science, internet

  • - By Paul Merrell

  • A coalition of US groups representing more than 10 million scientists and engineers published 20 questions on Wednesday they want every US presidential candidate to answer ahead of November’s vote.

    The questions range from how to support vaccine science, to defining the scope of America’s goals in space, to the candidates’ views on climate change and what would they would do about it.

    Stances on nuclear power, protecting the world’s oceans, reducing the human and economic costs of mental illness, and the controversy over visa programs that allow highly skilled immigrants into the United States also feature in the list, made public by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

  • The full list is available at ScienceDebate.org/20qs.

    The 56 groups that helped create the list by crowd sourcing the questions has asked for the candidates to answer the questions by September 6.

    All are described by AAAS as non-partisan groups, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, the American Chemical Society and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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