John Holdren,
Climate
Information about the book "The Honest Broker" is here .
The loon couldn’t pass hs algebra. Science, my butt. When the Obamaloon and his school O’fools get their science from Al Gore, things are really, really bad.
So perhaps John Tierney of the New York Times and Prof. Pielke would be wise to retract the words of this article, lest they find themselves in the dock à la Nuremberg.
That bit about "restoring science to its rightful place" was probably code for embryonic stem cell research.
Keep in mind that Obama studied Political Science at Columbia and law at Harvard. In other words, he doesn't know ANYTHING about science.
“Politics in the Guise of Pure Science”
Brought to you by the brilliant, all-knowing, smart, exceptionally gifted, bequeatheed-with-boundless-intelligence, self-appointed, intellectual giants of the Democrat party. (They’re so brilliant, dontcha know, that one Communist in the Democrat party is more intelligent than all the people he rules.)
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IMHO
“The word, “truth” itself ceases to have its old meaning. It becomes something to be laid down by authority.”
Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, Ch XI, The End of Truth.
One would think that scientists would be more wary of soiling themselves with American-style Lysenkoism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
The Honest Broker:
Making Sense of Science
in Policy and Politics
by Roger A. Pielke, Jr.The Fifth Branch:
Science Advisers
as Policymakers
by Sheila Jasanoff
First there was Steven Chu, the physicist and new energy secretary, warning The Los Angeles Times that climate change could make water so scarce by century's end that "there's no more agriculture in California" and no way to keep the state's cities going, either. Then there was the hearing in the Senate to confirm another physicist, John Holdren, to be the president's science adviser. Dr. Holdren was asked about some of his gloomy neo-Malthusian warnings in the past, like his calculation in the 1980s that famines due to climate change could leave a billion people dead by 2020... Dr. Pielke, a professor in the environmental studies program at the University of Colorado, is the author of "The Honest Broker," a book arguing that most scientists are fundamentally mistaken about their role in political debates... says [scientists] pose as impartial experts pointing politicians to the only option that makes scientific sense. To bolster their case, they're prone to exaggerate their expertise (like enumerating the catastrophes that would occur if their policies aren't adopted), while denigrating their political opponents as "unqualified" or "unscientific."Thanks neverdem. That other book shown popped up in my search for "The Honest Broker".
