An Open Letter to the American People by 48 Nobel Prize Winning Scientists
June 21, 2004
Presidential elections present us with choices about our nation's future. We support John Kerry for President and urge you to join us.
The prosperity, health, environment, and security of Americans depend on Presidential leadership to sustain our vibrant science and technology; to encourage education at home and attract talented scientists and engineers from abroad; and to nurture a business environment that transforms new knowledge into new opportunities for creating quality jobs and reaching shared goals.
President Bush and his administration are compromising our future on each of these counts. By reducing funding for scientific research, they are undermining the foundation of America's future. By setting unwarranted restrictions on stem cell research, they are impeding medical advances. By employing inappropriate immigration practices, they are turning critical scientific talent away from our shores. And by ignoring scientific consensus on critical issues such as global warming, they are threatening the earth's future. Unlike previous administrations, Republican and Democratic alike, the Bush administration has ignored unbiased scientific advice in the policy-making that is so important to our collective welfare.
John Kerry will change all this. He will support strong investments in science and technology as he restores fiscal responsibility. He will stimulate the development and deployment of technologies to meet our economic, energy, environmental, health, and security needs. He will recreate an America that provides opportunity to all at home or abroad who can help us make progress together.
John Kerry will restore science to its appropriate place in government and bring it back into the White House. He is the clear choice for America's next President.
Signed,
Peter Agre
Chemistry
2003
David H. Hubel
Medicine
1981
Sidney Altman
Chemistry
1989
Louis Ignarro
Medicine
1998
Philip W. Anderson
Physics
1977
Eric R. Kandel
Medicine
2000
David Baltimore
Medicine
1975
Walter Kohn
Chemistry
1998
Baruj Benacerraf
Medicine
1980
Arthur Kornberg
Medicine
1959
Paul Berg
Chemistry
1980
Leon M. Lederman
Physics
1988
Hans A. Bethe
Physics
1967
Tsung-Dao Lee
Physics
1957
Michael Bishop
Medicine
1989
David M. Lee
Physics
1996
Günter Blobel
Medicine
1999
William N. Lipscomb
Chemistry
1976
N. Bloembergen
Physics
1981
Roderick MacKinnon
Chemistry
2003
James W. Cronin
Physics
1980
Mario J. Molina
Chemistry
1995
Johann Deisenhofer
Chemistry
1988
Joseph E. Murray
Medicine
1990
John B. Fenn
Chemistry
2002
Douglas D. Osheroff
Physics
1996
Val Fitch
Physics
1980
George Palade
Medicine
1974
Jerome I. Friedman
Physics
1990
Arno Penzias
Physics
1978
Walter Gilbert
Chemistry
1980
Martin L. Perl
Physics
1995
Alfred G. Gilman
Medicine
1994
Norman F. Ramsey
Physics
1989
Donald A. Glaser
Physics
1960
Burton Richter
Physics
1976
Sheldon L. Glashow
Physics
1979
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
Physics
1993
Joseph Goldstein
Medicine
1985
E. Donnall Thomas
Medicine
1990
Roger Guillemin
Medicine
1977
Charles H. Townes
Physics
1964
Dudley Herschbach
Chemistry
1986
Harold Varmus
Medicine
1989
Roald Hoffmann
Chemistry
1981
Eric Wieschaus
Medicine
1995
H. Robert Horvitz
Medicine
2002
Robert W. Wilson
Physics
1978
The views expressed in this letter represent those of the signers acting as individual citizens. They do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions with which they are affiliated. The Medicine award is for “Physiology or Medicine.�
-Pat Melvin
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