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3/30/2017 3:38 pm  #1


Who Needs Science

Trump Leaves Science Jobs Vacant, Troubling Critics

By CECILIA KANG and MICHAEL D. SHEARMARCH 30, 2017

WASHINGTON — On the fourth floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the staff of the White House chief technology officer has been virtually deleted, down from 24 members before the election to, by Friday, only one.

Scores of departures by scientists and Silicon Valley technology experts who advised Mr. Trump’s predecessor have all but wiped out the larger White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Mr. Trump has not yet named his top advisers on technology or science, and so far, has made just one hire: Michael Kratsios, the former chief of staff for Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor and one of the president’s wealthiest supporters, as the deputy chief technology officer.

Neither Mr. Kratsios, who has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Princeton, nor anyone else still working in the science and technology office regularly participates in Mr. Trump’s daily briefings, as they did for President Barack Obama.


“The impression this leaves is that Trump isn’t interested in science and that scientific matters are a low priority at the White House,” said Vinton G. Cerf, a computer scientist, vice president of Google and one of the chief architects of the internet. The dwindling of the White House science and technology staff for scientific research could have long-term consequences, Mr. Cerf said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/science-technology-white-house-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

3/30/2017 3:41 pm  #2


Re: Who Needs Science

Science, bah humbug.

It only got us to the moon, got us the a-bomb which saved hundreds of thousands of American GIs who would have otherwise died in the invasion of Japan.
Radar, sonar, the polio vaccine.

Is it me, or is Trump the biggest idiot to ever occupy the Oval office?
 


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
     Thread Starter
 

3/30/2017 4:14 pm  #3


Re: Who Needs Science

Truly a train wreck for our country 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

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