The Largest Number Of Scientists In Modern U.S. History Is Running For Office In 2018

[Judi Lynn]

02/03/2018 08:00 am ET Updated 2 hours ago

This comes at a time when there’s only one Ph.D. scientist in Congress.

By Alexander C. Kaufman

More than 60 researchers and technologists are running for federal office in 2018 as part of a historic wave of candidates with science backgrounds launching campaigns.

At least 200 candidates with previous careers in science, technology, engineering and math announced bids for some of the nation’s roughly 7,000 state legislature seats as of Jan. 31, according to data that 314 Action, a political action committee, shared exclusively with HuffPost.

The group, which launched in 2014 to help scientists run for office, said it is talking with 500 more people and is pressing about half of them to run. An additional 200 such candidates are running for school boards.

“The sheer number is really astonishing,” 314 Action founder Shaughnessy Naughton told HuffPost. “We’ve never seen anything like this.”

More:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/science-candidates_us_5a74fffde4b06ee97af2ae60?utm_hp_ref=climate-change

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1. This is good news. ( n/t )

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2. Wow! This is the kind of news

I love to hear. Let's vote these educated people into office.

There is nothing wrong with a candidate one could sit down and have a beer with. But I want my leaders smart. Preferably smarter than I.

[RandomAccess]

3. Cool beans

I just hope most of them are women.

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5. 👏🏾 n/t

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4. Very Encouraging!! n/t

[BigmanPigman]

6. Thank goodness...long overdue.

[SergeStorms]

7. GOOD!

There's so much ignorance in Congress today it makes my mind hurt from the S T U P I D!

There are Republicans who think the earth is 6,000 years old, and was created by an angry sky daddy who needs to be praised 24/7. Just like Donald Trump.

[erronis]

8. They don't actually "believe" that drivel. But it plays well to the 30%

The closest belief most of them have is to power, money, sex, power, etc.

Their deplorable base is kept lubricated with crummy beer, opioids from the Sackler family, perpetual poverty and babies.

Strange world.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. thanks!

I'd never heard of 314 Action before.

[NNadir]

10. For many years, my congressman was physicist Rush Holt.

It was a wonderful time, probably the only time in my life that I was extremely enthusiastic about my congress person.

(At one time, a district in which I lived was represented by the jail bird, Randall "Duke" Cunningham), a corrupt idiot, but I had many better congress people over the years.

None however, could hold a candle to Dr. Holt.

Dr. Holt, who now heads the AAAS, was one of the most compassionate and open members of Congress one could imagine. I disagreed with him on a few things, but I always felt that he made his decisions with the deepest sense of integrity and thought.

I have no problem with my current congress person, but I still miss Dr. Holt's presence in politics.

[California_Republic]

11. I will adopt one!

Sweet!