Damn Elitist Un-American Scientists! Don't they know that the only science that matters is in the BIBLE!!!!!!

He's only interested in scientific endeavors that result in bigger and better ways to kill Muslims and Vietnamese.

These anti-Americans (look at them funny names!) probably think "Gorebal warming" is science - and Intelligent Design isn't!

The neglect and indeed complete disregard for science by the Bush adminstration is perhaps one of the more underreported travesties of the last eight years (I know, I know, how does one pick from so many?).

These Nobel Laureates are dead on correct in how this neglect and dismantling of science will seriously harm America and the world in the years and decades to come.

The most critical problems facing the world today, climate change and the environment, demand sound science and vigous development of new ideas and an openness for change. All of which have been stymied under Bush's mismanagement and politization of the process.

The world has lost eight years, eight critical years, in combatting global climate change. Eight years we will not get back.

Let us hope that we can get back on track. The vast majority of the scientific community says we have, at best, only 4-5 years to start making signifigant changes before we cross the thershold to irrepairable harm to our environment.

What would be nice is a note about how many American nobelists are still alive. Is this 76 out of 100 or 76 out of 150?

Although in his case, his organization might be quite happy to stand behind an endorsement of Obama.

They might have a word with the trial lawyers who foisted upon the public the Bendectin litigation, the Silicone-gel breast implant litigation (and the bankruptcy of Dow-Corning), the Erin Brockovich litigation in California, the Audi accelerator claims, the ongoing joke of "birth trauma" litigation that made a millionaire out of John Edwards, the asbestos and silicosis claims that were exposed as fruads by federal judge Janis Jack in Texas, and on and on and on and on.

The trial lawyers live in a largely science-free universe. As a result, they've become some of the Democrats' leading paymasters.

Keep trying. If you keep saying it, someday, someone might believe you.

How's that Palin pick workin' out for ya?

Douchenozzle.

These people are not real Americans. Does Martin Chalfie know how to field-dress a Moose? Can Roger Tsien castrate a polar bear?

Don't talk to me about these eggheads. I bet Yoichiro Nambu doesn't even know what a snowmachine is.

Wake up America! Your country is about to be taken over by people with multiple graduate degrees, elitists who know all about differential equations but nothing about differential transmissions. They might have been "hooded" when they got their PhDs. But these people don't wear our kind of hoods.

What we need is real change, change of the Mavericky kind, where the President plucks his own chickens and the Vice President stuffs her own turkeys.

These people who have endorsed Obama have been to Sweden. You know what they do in Sweden, don't you? They drive Saabs! Not only that, but they like spreadin' the wealth around, like communists.

And in the wintertime, all the hot Swedish women get high on fermented cloudberry juice and run naked through the fields chanting Abba songs. (well one can hope).

John McCain and Sarah Palin, Bridge to the 13th Century.

(Jon Stewart should get a Nobel Prize for Prophecy.)

Those geeks, who cares what they think? I just wish I could understand how we came to this state of affairs. I'm honestly starting to side with those who see us entering a new Dark Ages. I hope an Obama administration will turn back the tide.

Why this is even more persuasive than 4 out of 5 dentists recommending sugarless gum!

Cut and paste this as your response to any Obama good news...

"Scoff...scoff...pontificate...look, big word coming...revisionism...smug assertion...Obama evil..."

Hey Elephantman, when did Yasser Arafat receive a Nobel prize in science?

trotting out his ignorance over and over. So predictable. What does Arafat's Nobel have to do with science?

Clearly your understanding of what physiologists, chemists and physicists do for a living is right up there with your newest love-interest, Palin.

Nothing to see here, folks, this charter member of the "Priapics for Palin" club hasn't a clue when it comes to this topic.

My fundamental disagreement with conservatism and the Republican Party has always been their denigration of scientific approaches to problem-solving. Their presentation of scientific issues like biological evolution and climate change as if they were simply matters of differing "opinion" is particularly offensive. Over the years it has become increasingly clearer that conservatives are primarily concerned with enjoying the benefits of science while conserving (and encouraging) a pre-scientific worldview that helps keep them in power.

I know they call it the dismal science, but it still has science in the name!

The one science the radical right love is psychology. They declare its infallibility with righteousness while they sip pre-crime cocktails.

A couple of post-grad students from the College of Literal Biblical Truth Science University are conspicuously missing from the list of letter signers, meaning that there is a significant ongoing debate in the scientific community regarding the support for science in the Bush administration.

This Janis Jack guy sounds like a real genius! He's a judge AND he's good enough to debunk false scientific claims! That I gotta see to believe!

90% of lawyers don't know a damn thing about science (which is why they / future me went into law in the first place), and the 10% that do are in IP resolving patent claims. I find it really hard to believe that a federal judge could personally debunk anything more sophisticated than phrenology as non-scientific without relying on...you guessed it, opinions of actual scientists. So what you're basically saying is that a federal judge got presented with a bunch of bs science from one side, got presented with better science from the other side, and was, by a stroke of luck, able to figure out which was which. And I'm sure the judge and the better science was all republican, and all trial lawyers are democrats, except for the ones who used the better science. You know what, now that I think about it, I really have no clue what you're saying at all. But I'm gonna try, damnit:

John Edwards = trial lawyer. John Edwards = democrat. All trial lawyers = democrats (which makes perfect sense since they make a fortune and we know all rich people are democrats) All trial lawyers = anti-science, as long as it helps them win trials. Democrats = trial lawyers = anti-science. That's quite a house of cards you got there. If I can find one scrupulous trial lawyer or one Republican trial lawyer, its all coming down. And I bet there's at least one of each (although I'll concede probably not much more).

Oh, and just so we're clear: Asbestos didn't cause cancer? Good to know.