NCI's Varmus calls for 'forceful' science questions at US presidential debates
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Ahead of the 2012 US presidential debates between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney – with the first of three matches set for 3 October in Denver, Colorado – the head of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) on 25 September called on the journalistic community to ensure biomedical science is on the table for discussion.