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Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA) is an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government, and supporting candidates who understand science and its applications. SEA was formed on September 27, 2006, and describes itself as non-partisan.

SEA is organized as a 501(c)(3) organization, and represents a reorganization of Scientists and Engineers for Change, an organization founded in 2004 to support the election of John Kerry
John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry is the Junior Senator United States Senate from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party , he was defeated by 34 electoral votes in the United States presidential election, 2004 by the Republican Party incumbent President of the United States...
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Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA) is an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government, and supporting candidates who understand science and its applications. SEA was formed on September 27, 2006, and describes itself as non-partisan.

SEA is organized as a 501(c)(3) organization, and represents a reorganization of Scientists and Engineers for Change, an organization founded in 2004 to support the election of John Kerry
John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry is the Junior Senator United States Senate from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party , he was defeated by 34 electoral votes in the United States presidential election, 2004 by the Republican Party incumbent President of the United States...
. Its current executive director is Lesley Stone. SEA operates a wiki
Wiki

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content , using a simplified markup language....
 site called the Science, Health And Related Policies (SHARP) Network, which allows members to track and contribute information on Congressional representatives, candidates, and science policy issues. SEA is associated with a 501(c)(4) organization known as the SEA Action Fund, whose president is geneticist Michael Stebbins
Michael Stebbins

Michael Stebbins is an United States of America geneticist and science writer. He received his B.S. in biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his Ph.D....
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Political positions


Bill of Rights for Scientists and Engineers

A bill of rights which outlines the principles of the organization states:

Mission statement

The organization's mission statement states:

Programs


SHARP Network

The Science, Health and Related Policies Network is a wiki
Wiki

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content , using a simplified markup language....
 to track congressional representatives, senators, and candidates as well as presidential candidates.

Innovation & the Elections 2008

Scientists and Engineers for America organized a coalition of 19 science organizations to submit a set of 7 questions to all the candidates for United States Congress
United States Congress

The United States Congress is the Bicameralism legislature of the Federal government of the United States of the United States of America, consisting of two houses, the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
. The coalition includes groups such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation between scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting science education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity....
, National Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
, and Science Debate 2008
Science Debate 2008

Science Debate 2008 was a grassroots campaign to call for a public debate in which the candidates for the 2008 U.S. presidential election discuss issues relating to the environment, health and medicine, and science and technology policy....
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Elections Education and Training

The Elections Education and Training project is a workshop aimed at training science-oriented professionals to run for public office.

Board of Advisers

Among others, the SEA Board of Advisers includes noted Nobel Laureates
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 such as:.
  • Peter Agre
    Peter Agre

    Peter Agre is an United States medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins....
  • Sidney Altman
    Sidney Altman

    Sidney Altman is a Canadian molecular biology, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University....
  • Philip W. Anderson
    Philip Warren Anderson

    Philip Warren Anderson is an United States physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of Anderson localization, antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity....
  • Johann Deisenhofer
    Johann Deisenhofer

    Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the structure of a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis....
  • Alfred Gilman
  • Douglas D. Osheroff
    Douglas D. Osheroff

    Douglas Dean Osheroff is an United States physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 with David Lee and Robert Coleman Richardson for discovering the superfluidity phase of Helium-3....
  • Martin Perl
  • Burton Richter
    Burton Richter

    Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning United States physicist....
  • Harold E. Varmus
    Harold E. Varmus

    Harold Elliot Varmus is an United States Nobel prize winning scientist. He was a co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cell ular origin of retrovirus oncogenes....


Criticism

Soon after its foundation, the organization was accused of partisanship by several conservative media outlets. Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith is a lawyer and an award winning author, a senior fellow in bioethics at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture....
, senior fellow of the Discovery Institute
Discovery Institute

The Discovery Institute is a conservative public policy U.S. think tank based in Seattle, Washington, best known for its advocacy of intelligent design and its Teach the Controversy campaign to teach creationism anti-evolution beliefs in United States public high school Science education....
, wrote in The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard is a conservatism United States opinion magazine published 48 times per year. It is owned by News Corporation and made its debut on September 16, 1995....
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An editorial in The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an English language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company in New York, New York with Asian and European editions....
 criticised the organization for seeming to stifle scientific dissent:

In a rebuttal posted on the SEA website, founding executive director Michael Brown stated:

See also

  • Politicization of science
    Politicization of science

    The politicization of science is the manipulation of science for political gain. It occurs when government, business, or interest groups use legal or economic pressure to influence the findings of scientific research or the way it is disseminated, reported or interpreted....
  • Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
    Scientific Integrity in Policymaking

    "Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science" is the title of a report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists in February, 2004....
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
    Union of Concerned Scientists

    The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit science advocacy group based in the United States. The UCS membership includes many private citizens in addition to professional scientists....
  • Federation of American Scientists
    Federation of American Scientists

    The Federation of American Scientists is a non-profit organization formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project who felt that scientists, engineers and other innovators had an ethical obligation to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on critical national decisions....


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