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Conservatives hate science. They prefer to get their "knowledge" from a Bronze Age book of prose. Why would anyone expect them to appoint a science advisor let alone understand anything much beyond big wheeled trucks, beer, rasslin', and roadkill dinners?
What? And become hateful liberals who hang out at Starbucks with our cups of organic coffee with a blast of soy, triple foam with *** milk while planning a rally to promote pedophile appreciation month while giggling over witch one pays their illegal alien housekeeper the least..yeah..no thanks
Science is ..... science; the empiricism of nature and physical reality will rule over the long run, no matter which side disagrees with it or attempts to overrule it. Time to move on.
I'm sure if Trump had a science advisor to warn him about the affects of a nuclear detonation, he wouldn't be so cavalier about his "button."
Trump scarily may share with other science deniers and belittlers, including the several in this thread, that there is no such thing as a nuclear winter.
Given his repeated (laughable) assertions of his great personal intelligence and expertise, he may feel no need for any science advisor, and has repeatedly eschewed scientific expertise when appointing cabinet members as well as other members of his administration and advisory committees.
What's sad is that a year into the Trump administration, journalists only now are reporting about these essential, unfilled positions.
More disturbing is that Congress, including Democratic Congresspersons, have not made this a key oversight issue.
This is an inexcusable and DANGEROUS case of indifference, incompetence and neglect on the part of Trump and his administration:
<<After almost a year in office, President Trump has yet to name a science adviser and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Since World War II, no American president has shown greater disdain for science — or more lack of awareness of its likely costs....
The director of the office, who is nominated by the president and requires Senate approval, typically serves as the president’s science adviser, providing him with confidential, unbiased counsel. Much of what the federal government does and the many policy changes the president and his appointees are now making or hope to make have scientific and technological underpinnings....
Today, the O.S.T.P. maintains only a skeleton staff led by the deputy chief technology officer, Michael Kratsios, a technologically inexperienced Silicon Valley financier holding just a bachelor’s degree in political science. The posts of deputy director and four congressionally mandated associate directors remain vacant.>>
The problem may be that no reputable scientists want to be associated with Trump and his administration.
This sounds like code for....there's no global warming advisor milking the taxpayers out of $200K per year. Good. Let the private sector deal with this area.
What? And become hateful liberals who hang out at Starbucks with our cups of organic coffee with a blast of soy, triple foam with *** milk while planning a rally to promote pedophile appreciation month while giggling over witch one pays their illegal alien housekeeper the least..yeah..no thanks
Mmmm Starbucks...okay that one I'll give you but "pedophile appreciation"? Hardly. It wasn't us who ran a pedophile for the Alabama senate seat.
I'm not sure if you are being facetious or not but most of us on the left do not support open borders. We favor strong border control. What we don't favor in that regard is kicking people out who have lived here their whole lives and don't know any place else.
You really should read the article. The entire O.S.T.P. is starved, showing how little President Trump seems to care about science and being informed. Here's a helpful excerpt as to what they do and why they're necessary:
"The science adviser is the one individual who can quickly pull all the relevant information together for the president, cut through conflicting advice coming from other senior advisers and Cabinet secretaries, and get evidence-based options in front of him. Especially important has been the adviser’s role in helping the president deal with crises — Sept. 11, the subsequent anthrax attacks, the Fukushima nuclear nightmare in 2011, the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, hurricane devastation and cyberattacks."
Conservatives hate science. They prefer to get their "knowledge" from a Bronze Age book of prose. Why would anyone expect them to appoint a science advisor let alone understand anything much beyond big wheeled trucks, beer, rasslin', and roadkill dinners?
Ya, so...ok.....the last guy who was there, is he the one who told obama that "the science is settled"?
And as it appears, you believe that....just as all you other buddies in this thread...
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