This story originally appeared on Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every election cycle, science gets the short end of the stick. So a collective of scientists--56 scientific organizations representing 10 million scientists and engineers and spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science--tries to engage them in a debate by compiling a list of science-based questions, soliciting answers and publishing them. This year should be particularly interesting. As has been pointed out before, the two major presidential candidates this year hold vastly different views on science-related issues.