Antidote for “No Sympathy for Physics Departments”

ZapperZ (blog: Physics and Physicists) provides the perfect antidote to the very negative comments written by the public in response to article about budget challenges to physics departments. His latest post today provides a link to a New York Times article Eleven Questions for Obama’s Science Team. The questions are really good! Number 3 (Can Science Get Respect?), Number 7 (Will You Make Science Cool?) and Number 9 (Boosting U.S. Brainpower) are particularly germane, and heartening.

What a nice first day of 2009!