{"id":6941,"date":"2017-10-24T13:59:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:59:36","slug":"still-no-science-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6941","title":{"rendered":"Still no science advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is interesting: No president in more than 50-years has been so pokey as Donald Trump about appointing a science advisor.<\/p>\n

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That shouldn’t be a surprise, I suppose. After all, The Donald’s EPA head is busily scrubbing that department’s Web site free of mentions of climate change.<\/p>\n

What did<\/i> startle me, at first, is this: Richard Nixon and Barack Obama were the fastest about appointing a science advisor. Then I recalled that Nixon launched the EPA and, of course, Obama’s reliance upon science is well-known. Nixon wasn’t too scrupulous about the Constitution, but both men governed as reality-based pragmatists. I guess small, hardly-noticed things can tell you a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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