Obama Campaign Reveals Science Advisors

So says WIRED:

Barack Obama has established a small but well-regarded inner circle of science advisors that includes a vocal critic of creationism, a Nobel laureate who has championed open-access research, and another laureate who used his prize money to defend academic freedom against the war on terror. Though their influence on the policies of a prospective Obama administration are unknown, they've played a prominent role in establishing his science platform to date.

Obama announced his science platform earlier this month in response to questions posed by ScienceDebate2008, a nonpartisan political education group. In response to a Wired Science follow-up, the campaign identified five people who helped draft Obama's statement: Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate and former head of the National Institutes of Health; Gilbert Ommen, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Peter Agre, a Nobel laureate and ardent critic of the Bush administration; NASA researcher Donald Lamb; and Stanford University plant biologist Sharon Long.

What did I see there? Harold Varmus? Yup.

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omg. LUV VARMUS! I think he might be coming to OU soon, or we have him scheduled, or something :)

And Obamas got a woman in there!

Obama just won 100 points.

And a guy from NASA too. The Bad Astronomer will be pleased to see that.

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