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This year\u2019s election is divisive, but one subject enjoys some consensus: science and technology policies are important.\xa0So why aren\u2019t the candidates discussing these issues?\xa0The answers might surprise you.\nThe organizer of Science Debate, who wants a live debate devoted to science and technology, describes one obstacle to meaningful discussion.\xa0He also shares how the candidates responded to probing questions about science.\xa0\nCommunication expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson looks back to the televised debate of Kennedy and Nixon to discern trends that have made productive discussion about science nearly impossible today (it didn\u2019t start out that way!)\nAnd, the unique situation in which the man at the top of one political ticket is flat out wrong about science: a physicist describes how Donald Trump\u2019s anti-science position affects the election.\xa0\nGuests:\n\n\nShawn Otto\xa0-\xa0co-founder of\xa0sciencedebate.org, and the author of \u201cThe War on Science: Who\u2019s Waging It, Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It"\xa0\xa0\n\n\nLawrence Krauss\xa0-\xa0Professor of theoretical physics at Arizona State University, director of its Origins Project, and a member of sciencedebate.org\n\n\n Kathleen Hall Jamieson\xa0-\xa0Professor of communication, University of Pennsylvania, director of the university\u2019s Annenberg Public Policy Center. Author of more than a dozen books on politics and the media, and co-founder of\xa0factcheck.org\xa0that has a separate page for science:\xa0scifact.org\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices