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Science is key to U.S. standing, but presidential candidates largely ignore it

  • Written by Bernadette Gray-Little, Chancellor, University of Kansas

Aside from Hillary Clinton’s brief mentions of the need to focus on developing technology and clean energy jobs and addressing climate change, science issues were absent from the first presidential debate.

Unfortunately, this is indicative of how things have gone throughout the 2016 campaign. Amid all the talk from our leading presidential...

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