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For Immediate Release 25 October 2004
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Case Western Reserve Physics Chair Dr. Lawrence Krauss of Scientists and Engineers for Change to Debate Science Policy with Dr. Charles Artzen of Arizona State's Bio-Design Institute at 9:00 AM October 26th on NPR's Tavis Smiley Show.
Washington, D.C.---Dr. Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve Physics Department Chair and popular physics author has been invited to debate science policy with Dr. Charles Artzen of Arizona State's Bio-Design Institute Tuesday morning, October 26th at 9:00 AM on National Public Radio's Tavis Smiley Show. Krauss is an active speaker for Scientists and Engineers for Change, a political committee working to ensure that issues affected by science and technology are widely discussed, and that the nation's scientists and engineers participate actively in the political process. It operates a Web site and publishes an electronic newsletter to help members of the science and engineering community understand the positions of the candidates, and is organizing lectures by prominent members of the science and engineering communities around the country. Scientists and Engineers for Change is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has a web page on the Internet at: www.scientistsandengineersforchange.org
The launch of Scientists and Engineers for Change was inspired by a group of 48 winners of the Nobel Prize who signed a letter endorsing Senator John Kerry's bid for the presidency. Dr. Sidney Altman of Yale is one of the Nobelists who signed the letter and is part of the new organization. According to Dr. Altman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989, the election of Kerry would have a major positive impact on science. "Research on stem cells," said Altman, "which is an exciting opportunity for us to investigate new clinical applications, is a promising intellectual adventure. John Kerry is very much in favor of this initiative and so am I, unlike the attitude of the Bush Administration which has been attempting to make such research illegal and, in their terms, immoral."
Nobel Laureate Arno Penzias (Physics 1978), another member of the new group, calls Bush's Mission to Mars "scientific suicide" which shows "complete indifference to the genuine priorities of the scientific community."
The broadcast can be heard on NPR stations around the nation and through your computer at npr.org. Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and Chair of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of six popular books, including the national bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek. Krauss holds a fellowship in the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has won many awards, including the Gravity Research Foundation First Prize Award, the Presidential Investigator Award, AAAS's Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology, the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, the Andrew Gemant Award, the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, and the
Dr. Charles Arntzen is the Founding Director of the Biodesign Institute and Florence Ely Nelson Presidential Chair, Arizona State University. Charles J. Arntzen was appointed to the Florence Ely Nelson Presidential Endowed Chair at Arizona State University in Tempe in 2000 and as Regents Professor in 2004. He served as the Founding Director of The Biodesign Institute until May, 2003, and currently serves as the Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology of that Institute. Dr. Arntzen was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and to the National Academy of Sciences in India the following year. He is a fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, received the Award for Superior Service from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for international project leadership in India.
For Immediate Release 22 October 2004
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"Stem Cell Researcher Dr. Bruce Conklin to Speak at the University of Minnesota, Duluth and St. Lukes Hospital"
For Immediate Release 22 October 2004
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"Climate Change Expert and Leading Physicist to Speak About Global Warming and Other Dangers to Our Health and Security at Florida State University's Hurricane Climate Institute."
For Immediate Release 22 October 2004
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"Dr. Mary Good, Former Under Secretary for Technology at the US Department of Commerce and Dr. R. Stephen Berry Professor Emeritus from the University of Chicago to Speak on Science Policy October 28th at the University of Missouri at Columbia"
For Immediate Release 22 October 2004
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"Dr. Mary Good, Former Under Secretary for Technology at the US Department of Commerce and Dr. R. Stephen Berry Professor Emeritus from the University of Chicago to Speak on Science Policy October 28th at the University of Missouri at Rolla"
Scientists and Engineers for Change Accepts Challenge to Debate Talk Show Host Michael Reagan on Bush Stem Cell Policy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Fighting back against the roadblocks Republicans are placing in the way of promising scientific research on embryonic stem cells to fight disease, Scientists and Engineers for Change today accepted a challenge issued by conservative talk radio host Michael Reagan last week to debate the issue. According to conservative news site NewsMax.com, Michael Reagan says John Kerry and the Democrats do not understand stem cell research as well as he does, or they would share his position.
"The attitudes of the two Presidential candidates on stem cell research are dramatically different, and the American people deserve to know why President Bush's policies are a clear example of foot dragging that may very well cost human lives," said Dr. Peter Agre, 2003 Nobel Laureate in chemistry.
Michael Reagan serves on the board of the John Douglass French Alzheimer's Foundation and is the first son of former president Ronald Reagan, who suffered from Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's adversely affects the brain functions of millions of Americans and has been the focus of genetic research using embryonic stem cells to cure the illness. The Bush administration has stopped federally funding embryonic stem cell research and the Kerry campaign has taken issue with that decision, a position that has overwhelming support in the scientific and medical communities. While President Bush claimed that 70 lines were available for Federally-funded embryonic stem cell research, in reality only 11 are available and those are deteriorating. As a result, American research in this exciting new area is falling behind.
Scientists and Engineers for Change is a political committee working to ensure that issues affected by science and technology are widely discussed, and that the nation's scientists and engineers participate actively in the political process. It helps members of the science and engineering community understand the positions of the candidates, and has organized lectures by prominent members of the science and engineering communities around the country, including experts on stem cell research.
Stem cell experts prepared to go on Reagan's show on behalf of Scientists and Engineers for Change include Dr. Harold Varmus, former Director of the National Institutes of Health and 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, Agre of Johns Hopkins, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and Dr. Bruce Conklin, genetic researcher and professor of cardiovascular disease at the Gladstone Institute, University of California at San Francisco
Scientists and Engineers for Change has a schedule of future speaking dates on the Internet at http://www.scientistsandengineersforchange.org
Reagan's radio show airs from 6-9 p.m. Monday through Friday on Radio America. A date has not yet been scheduled.
