AUSTIN, Texas — Joe Biden may no longer be vice president, but he’s still leading the charge for his cancer moonshot, and for science funding as well.
“The United States government, at this point in our development, should be doubling and tripling down on investment in pure research across the board,” Biden said today in Austin at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
That line drew sympathetic applause from the hundreds of scientists and educators who turned out to see the 75-year-old statesman.
Biden is said to be considering a presidential run in 2020, and if that’s the case, his views on science could well be part of the platform.
