{"id":6215,"date":"2010-01-22T13:16:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/%e2%80%9cscience-under-obama%e2%80%9d-on-the-bbc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cnight-waves%e2%80%9d-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:16:25","slug":"%e2%80%9cscience-under-obama%e2%80%9d-on-the-bbc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cnight-waves%e2%80%9d-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%e2%80%9cscience-under-obama%e2%80%9d-on-the-bbc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cnight-waves%e2%80%9d-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"\u201cScience Under Obama\u201d on the BBC\u2019s \u201cNight Waves\u201d | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently appeared on this show<\/a>, and I wasn’t the only one. Here’s the guest list:<\/p>

Stewart Brand – author of the newly published Whole Earth Discipline
Dr Janet Rowley – human geneticist at the University of Chicago
Chris Mooney – author of The Republican War on Science and Unscientific America
Reverend Robert Sirico – founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Professor Jared Diamond – Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel: How Human Societies Fail
Oliver Morton – Energy and Environment Editor for The Economist
Dr Brent Blackwelder – President Emeritus of Friends of the Earth, United States<\/p>

All in all, I have to say it made for a crowded, but very interesting, debate about science, politics, and society in the U.S., exactly one year after President Obama promised to restore science to its “rightful place,” & c & c.<\/p>

I found that I agree with Stewart Brand about a lot. I also found that I agree with Robert Sirco about pretty much zero–and the same goes for Brent Blackwelder, at least based on what I heard on the show.<\/p>

Oliver Morton’s comments on science and the American frontier were either deep or brilliant, I’m not sure which. But they gave me a little chill.<\/p>

Based on his comments, I think Jared Diamond would like Unscientific America<\/em>.<\/p>

Oh, and Janet Rowley: Loved her comments on Leon Kass assigning an anti-science short story, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birth-Mark<\/em><\/a>, at the first meeting of the President’s Council on Bioethics under Bush…an episode that should never be forgotten.<\/p>

Listen to the whole program here<\/a>.<\/p>

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