Thirty Eight Nobel Winning Scientists have Endorsed Obama, shouldn't you?
See: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/Obama%20Nobel%20Endorsement%20Letter%202012.pdf
See: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/Obama%20Nobel%20Endorsement%20Letter%202012.pdf
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I have sufficient confidence in my own decision-making abilities to not vote the way my boss or my union or a collection of scientists tells me to vote. In other words, I'm not a drone. And a person can be a brilliant chemist or physicist and not understand squat about the concerns of my world. And I notice, by the way, that there is not one Economist in that group.
Scholars tend to work and be immersed in Academia, which with its grants and tenure and government support, tends to be rather insulated from "regular" American life. So their presuming to know and understand what is "best" for the rest of us poor, dumb folks is just arrogance of the first order. It's like when some celebrity or athlete tries to tell us what's good for us.
And for my money, Obama has not been that great a supporter of the Sciences or the scientific problems that confront us, anyway. He has virtually emasculated NASA, for example, and there has been virtually no substantive progress during his administration on the problems of global warming or A.I.D.S.
Where Eagles Dare
The fact that 38 of these guys endorse Obama kind of ruins the credibility of the Nobel prize.
Are these scientists going to turn lead into gold too like Obama promised?
Grillparzer
While impressive, the difficulty with this is that Nobel Prize winning scientists, while experts in their individual fields, don't necessarily know any more about politics then you or I. Assuming of course, you are not a Nobel Prize winning scientist.
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Don't forget Honey boo endorsed Obama as well. With endorsements like this, the man can't lose.
Fjord
You would help your case more by citing Nobel winning economists. This election is about jobs and economic growth, something economists are, obviously, experts on. While I admire scientists they are not political scientists nor are they likely to have any scholarly economic journals or books.