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07.08.04, 20:46
Nature 430, 595 (05 August 2004); doi:10.1038/430595a
Nobel laureates spearhead effort to put Kerry in the White House
GEOFF BRUMFIEL AND EMMA MARRIS
Researchers hit the campaign trail for the US presidential election
[WASHINGTON] A group of high-profile researchers is to hit the campaign trail
on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
Planners hope that the group, known as Scientists and Engineers for Kerry,
will turn researchers' anger over the Bush administration's treatment of
science into a major political force. In the run-up to the election, they
will attempt to recruit scientists across the country to deliver speeches on
Kerry's behalf and to campaign for his election.
"It's very hard to anticipate, but I think we're going to get a very strong
response," says Henry Kelly, president of the Federation of American
Scientists in Washington, who is working independently from that organization
to spearhead the group. Kelly, who helped put together a recent letter from
48 Nobel prizewinners endorsing the Kerry campaign (see Nature 430, 4; 2004),
believes that the group of researchers will be far larger than any ever
brought together on behalf of a presidential candidate.
Kelly has so far secured three Nobel laureates from across the scientific
disciplines to head the group. Harold Varmus, a geneticist and former
director of the National Institutes of Health, has agreed to co-chair the
committee with Mario Molina, an atmospheric chemist at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and Burton Richter, a physicist and director
emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California. Others may
join them.
