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Associated Press: Democrat John Kerry, touting the endorsement of 48 Nobel Prize-winning scientists, has criticized President Bush for relying on ideology rather than fact in the pursuit of science and
repeated his pledge to overturn the ban on federal
funding of research on new stem cell lines.
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Kerry: Bush puts ideology ahead of research
Bush camp says president is commited to the sciences
Monday, June 21, 2004 Posted: 1:43 PM EDT (1743 GMT)
NANTUCKET, Massachusetts (AP) -- Democrat John Kerry,
touting the endorsement of 48 Nobel Prize-winning
scientists, has criticized President Bush for relying
on ideology rather than fact in the pursuit of science
and repeated his pledge to overturn the ban on federal
funding of research on new stem cell lines..
"We need a president who will once again embrace our
tradition of looking toward the future and new
discoveries with hope based on scientific facts, not
fear," the presidential candidate said in a speech
prepared for a Monday afternoon appearance in Denver.
Kerry is making his first public campaign trip to
Colorado, a traditionally Republican-leaning state.
It has voted Democratic before, choosing Bill Clinton
in 1992, and Kerry's advisers say it could do so again
this year because of the growing Hispanic population
and jobs losses under Bush.
The Massachusetts senator also hopes to have special
appeal because he was born at Fitzsimmons Army
Hospital near Denver and can relate with his military
background to the many veterans who live there.
Kerry has visited Colorado for private fund-raisers
and planned to fly from a weekend on this vacation
island to the ski haven of Aspen to raise money at a
private home before his speech in Denver.
In those remarks, Kerry said Bush's anti-science
initiatives included limiting stem cell research;
removing information about the global warming threat
from a 2003 Environmental Protection Agency report;
ordering changes to a report that described damage
that would be caused by oil-drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge and deleting information
about condoms from government Web sites.
A Kerry campaign statement said Bush's proposed budget
cuts in the National Science Foundation, the EPA and
Veterans Affairs Department would "stymie important
scientific discoveries."
Kerry also pointed to a report by the Union of
Concerned Scientists that the administration distorts
scientific findings and tries to manipulate experts'
advice to avoid information that runs counter to its
political beliefs.
Bush's top science adviser said the report was
inaccurate and flawed in its methodology.
Kerry pledged to listen to the country's scientists
and make decisions based on their advice.
He also repeated his pledge to fund new stem cell
lines. Aides said he would announce proposed increases
in federal spending on science Tuesday.
Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said the
president has made an unprecedented commitment to the
sciences and funding levels are at record highs.
"President Bush has an enormous investment in the
National Institutes of Health and other areas of
scientific research," he said.
Harold Varmus, a former head of the NIH and a Kerry
supporter, said Bush continued President Clinton's
plan to double the agency's budget over five years.
But, he said, White House documents show the
administration is prepared to cut the NIH budget by
2.1 percent in 2006.
Other scientific budgets have increased, but under the
rate of inflation, Varmus said.
"I, like many scientists, feel like the country needs
stronger leadership on scientific research," said
Varmus, one of the Nobel Prize-winning scientists who
announced their endorsement of Kerry in an open letter
Monday.
The other signers include winners from 1957-2003 in
chemistry, physics and medicine.
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