More friendly advice for our friendly Republican friends

Steve Mirsky, writing in Scientific American, ruminates on a party that has (one would hope) found the limits of anti-intellectualism (link):

Science and technology are probably going to be the driving forces that lift us out of the economic hole we’re in. The Obama campaign had an entire science advisory team that included two Nobel laureates, Harold Varmus and Peter Agre. The McCain campaign did not have a dedicated science adviser. Future Republican presidential candidates: come to the clean energy–powered, low-wattage, high-lumen light. It beats cursing the darkness.