Obama also talked in the address (and in previous speeches) about the need for an overhaul of our energy policies, transportation systems, and national infrastructure. To my mind, acheiving those goals requires that science be allowed to move to the forefront. We need good engineers and scientists working on solving our environmental and energy problems so we can get this whole mess turned around. If science is not respected, there will be no more cutting edge breakthrough in America; that work will be done elsewhere.
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