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So, do you know who you're voting for in 2018?

2018?

Isn't it 2017?

It is 2017.

But hey, you know, there might be some pretty big decisions we need to make in the next year.

So time to start thinking about it, maybe.

It's the holidays, so I feel like I need a break from politics.

It feels like we don't get any breaks from politics because every election is life and death.

And I know for months everyone's been talking about 2018 around my household.

Oh, certainly. And it seems like even in 2017, we had a few elections and, you know, we're still talking about those.

But there is one organization that I want to bring people's attention to that I think is really meaningful and something that I hope will gain much more

traction in 2018 that it has in the past. And this is sciencedebate.org. So, science debate.org

is an organization that is, that was designed to ask politicians to answer questions about

science as they are being considered for office.

And it's all candidates. So, I mean, primarily they rose to fame when they interviewed presidential

candidates for their positions. But they also interviewed and asked these questions of candidates

and primaries. And they would do a lot of work to make sure all

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