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Only one member of Congress currently holds a PhD in science, but Bill Foster (D-IL), a physicist who formerly worked at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, may soon have some company. More than 60 candidates running for federal office in 2018 have backgrounds in science and technology, according to HuffPost.
“The attacks on science and the scientific method and just generally the disrespect for scientific truth is something that has all scientists on edge,” Foster told The New Republic last year.
Aerospace engineer and candidate for Texas’s 21st Congressional District Joseph Kosper agrees with Foster. “I absolutely feel that science is under attack,” Kosper tells The Washington Post. “It’s the opposite of when John F. Kennedy said he wanted to get us to the moon in ...
