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The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com)
DogDude shares an article from CBS News:
The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy was unstaffed as of Friday as the three remaining employees departed this week, sources tell CBS News... On Friday afternoon, Eleanor Celeste, the assistant director for biomedical and forensic sciences at the OSTP, tweeted, "Science division out. Mic drop" before leaving the office for the last time...
Under Mr. Obama, the science division was staffed with nine employees who led the charge on policy issues such as STEM education, biotechnology and crisis response. It's possible that the White House will handle these issues through staff in other divisions within the OSTP.
Under Mr. Obama, the science division was staffed with nine employees who led the charge on policy issues such as STEM education, biotechnology and crisis response. It's possible that the White House will handle these issues through staff in other divisions within the OSTP.
A government of the idiots, by the idiots and for the idiots.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I can see why they need a science advisor.
Maybe there are plenty of advisers available in the Tens of Thousands of Government employees at the Dozens of various agencies...
No need to pay twice.
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Great! now I know where to go when I need advice on the science of zeros.
Problem solved!
So, under Obama, they had 9 people working in this office, making $150,000 a year, doing... what exactly?
What were the great visionary policies for science coming out of the Obama White House?
What great technologies did the administration sponsor?
Maybe they advised the President well on internet and cybersecurity issues, to the benefit of the nation's retailers and online account holders?
No, the OSTP focused on education policy, advocated for more women in science, preached climate change, and worked for social justice. Their primary accomplishments were creating more boards and commissions and hiring more bureaucrats. They also wrote some boring non-technical non-policy papers. Oh, yes, they gave a number of empty speeches.
Futurists, with much better paychecks, at the taxpayers expense.
So, what loss is it to not have self-important 'advisers' and 'science experts' hanging around doing nothing useful? Abolish the office entirely, and return to they way it was in the 70s, before ignorant celebrity 'scientists' got government jobs.
I know that we would like to view every country on Earth as occupants of this cooperative spaceship that has to sustain humanity, and therefore in a sense it doesn't matter all that much that we get set back by one country slowing its science progress for a few years...
But in reality...
It's still a race for competitive advantage between countries, and seriously, the Chinese, Indians, Singaporeans, etc.etc are going to start eating our lunch, guys (even more than they are) -- and every move we make gets us forward or back a step in the race against them.
I think a lot of people don't want to admit this winner-takes-all reality... especially if they grow up in a highly liberal California environment where everyone is supposed to be nice to each other...
science is just a mater of opinion! Everybody's voice counts!
I don't know about you, but I certainly believe everything that anonymous sources tell me.
Thank you for giving the fool's opinion. Even fool's like yourself should be heard, so your foolishness can be seen.
The vast majority of supporters of the buffoon-in-chief not only do not like science, but they actively despise it.
For he certainly put them to good use.... What with the "Focus on Muslim Outreach" mandate Obama issued to NASA.
Look, Trump already has a scientist he can refer to if so be. His name is Ben Carson. And he is as good as anyone Obama had working for him.
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And yet, when it comes to providing healthcare for all US citizens, it's "fuck them, why should I pay for other people's healthcare".
No, you aren't compassionate and generous.
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Or a reminder of how powerless the President is, at least compared to how much power people tend to think the position holds.
You mean the Republicans have the "fuck them" attitude. The Democrats finally bit the bullet and raised taxes to attempt to cover the proles. Now if they hadn't relied on the insurance companies, they'd have done much better.
Oh? Ever watch Jeff Sessions when he was in Congress. 95% of scientists agree on an issue, but he finds someone from the other 5% and gave him equal billing. This administration has no use for science and facts, they collide with their beliefs.
We helped Europe deal with Nazi Germany
I'm not quite sure how fighting the Axis after being attacked by it counts as generous.
But anyway, the US has done many good, generous things, many neutral things and many rather awful, self-interested things.
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They'll handle these issues in the office of creationism and other bullshittery.
Since they won't take advice anyway.
FTFA
All of the work that we have been doing is still being done," a White House official familiar with the matter told CBS News, adding that 35 staffers currently work across the OSTP
The summary/headline is #FakeNews. There are still 35 employees in the Office of Science and Technology POLICY who can focus on political machinations regarding science and tech. They will keep churning out political position papers related to tech, and sponsoring initiatives that cost lots of money - and do nothing to fund or advance basic science research. But hey, we can have more LGBTQWTFBBQ humans hired in "STEM" roles based upon their non-academic/professional successes but solely on those things we're not supposed to judge people by: race, religion, and gender.
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But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before. Thanks for putting the insurance companies in our pockets, guys! And Obamacare is crumbling, most of the "exchanges" will be defunct by next year if it is left just as the Democrats (it was passed by a partisan super-majority) and Obama intended. Except for the bit where they expected a Democrat to be in the White House to declare it defunct so they could replace it with something worse.
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You're literally incoherent. Take your meds, Ahmed.
"I'm not quite sure how fighting the Axis after being attacked by it counts as generous" - Well, before December 1941 the US with Franklin D. Roosevelt as President was doing quite a bit of prodding the Axis (rightly, in my British view), for example:
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For more than a decade, I tried to serve the public good by working in the public sector. I finally got fed up with the shit pay, the shit I got when people found out I worked in the government (called a pig at the trough, incompetent, stupid, lazy, a drone, had my car vandalized multiple times, threaten with death on a weekly basis, and assaulted) and got a job in the private sector that pays one hell of a lot better.
The key here is that there is now a majority of people that think science and engineering are "just someone's opinion." That is true to a limited extent that it is indeed an opinion - but it's an opinion formed from training, intense study, experience, and perseverance. These opinions are not something someone pulls out of their ass.
The current administration was elected by the sorts of people that deny scientific opinion because it conflicts with their world view. The sorts of folks that think welfare is for the lazy the drug addicted, and cheats. Of course the white house science department has no employees. The people that elected this administration do not value science, compassion, empathy, or Christian Values, despite many of them calling themselves Christians. They are not Christians. At best they mistake their fear and anger for piety, their selfishness, lack of compassion and imagination as "being strong". These attitudes serve no one but the top 1%. The key here is that if you read this, you will never be one of the top 1%.
"The world isn't fair" is an excuse I hear a lot, which is true, life frequently isn't fair. Evil prospers when good men do nothing. There's nothing like doing nothing to ensure that life will remain unfair, and uncaring.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
And no I do not believe this, except so far that is what I assume is going through his head.
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Wasting time introducing internet kooks to facts is an endless wast of time, but just FYI, "Hillary-care" as it was called, was not exactly single payer. That is part of the reason why the Sanders wing of the Democratic party wasn't all that enchanted with her in 2016.
It did have the vast majority of Democrats behind it, and Republicans were absolutely terrified that it would prove to the public that the government can solve problems that private markets can't find profit in solving.
WW2 when the US government was NOT coming to Great Britain's aid until after Perl Harbour happened in December 1941 some 2 years after the start of WW2. Churchill had to pay the US to get the US to send supplies across the Atlantic whilst the German's sunk many of the convoys via their U-boats.
The Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 was the British Royal Air Force up against the German Air Force. Britain had a small number of air crews from other European and Commonwealth countries such as Poland, Canada and India. The US government was absent from the fight citing that it was a European war.
I agree that after WW2 there was the US Marshall plan in 1948 to help rebuild Western Europe however, the European governments had to pay back the US over decades. In addition, the US motives included pushing back communism to Eastern Europe.
Please try to get your facts right.
The Republicans killing the three main elements that would have kept the prices lower, and the ACA working - expanded medicare coverage, individual mandate and initial risk corridor subsidy - is what made the increases higher than they should have been, and is why it's crumbling, especially in red states, that then affect everyone else.
The Republicans haven't killed anything yet. Obamacare is still the law of the land, and I'm forced to pay in thousands to get zero back out.
Likewise, cretin!
"We helped Europe deal with Nazi Germany,"
Yeah, only after allies begged us to, while our ships were being sunk, and believed Nazi Germany was coming in over Greenland and suspected Mexico. We sat and dragged our ass while millions died, then sent hundreds of thousands of our boys in insufficient arms to be slaughtered.
btw, under Trump's idiocy, he would have remained isoataionist, and his motto of make America great again stems from the isolationists at that time.
"We defeated Japan,"
Yes, and you left a lot of things out.
The same Japan that we forced open that went through at least 2 civil wars, then settled on a military backed government, which built up and embarked on attacking the Russia and China repeatedly?
The same Japan we supplied and steel to, as they rampaged through the Sinosphere? When European allies begged us to stop it, we continued to supply them? The same Japan that then bombed us at Pearl Harbor when we largely withdrew finally fuel supplies, with US trained generals and with airplanes and ships made with US steel in them?
You omit the many 1960s and 1970s Japanese protests against US rule. You also admit many of the Showa era changes that the Japanese own, not the US.
It's one of the reasons China is so wary of us, because of what we did in WWII to them using Japan as a proxy, and why they are sticking it to us in kind using North Korea today.
Please don't ever say we are the world's police. We do good things, but your list ignores the many grievous ills of our modern past. We have plenty of bad policies that we ignore that lead up to many of the conflicts we end up 'resolving.' And Trump is leading the way today, hence the OP's claims are more spot on than your defense against it.
Cuba and Iran of old laugh at your claims. Syria and Iraq of most recent times are flipping you the hell off.
What a completely ignorant, revisionist history post.
Sessions may be in the administration, but he's not the one in any of the science related positions - be it EPA, Energy or FCC. Bringing up what he did as a senator is irrelevant.
Point is that the president has been burned badly by Obama holdovers. Leaks that never happened in previous administrations have happened in this one. There is a bureaucracy run amok, and so the president has major trust issues w/ the people he inherited from Obama. As a result, he's decided to expedite something that was gonna happen anyway - the replacement of previous administration officials w/ his own nominees.
Even when there ain't a change in parties, the new president comes in w/ a government and personnel that look very different from the previous one. See Bush 41's cabinet vs Reagan's. Had Hilary been elected, there would still have been major changes in personnel. To expect everybody from the Obama administration to stay on b'cos they're the 'Science Advisors' is pretty stupid
and we continue to confuse "health care" with insurance against risks to our health, demanding that insurers cover the cost of regular health care, with many people expecting that their health insurance premiums should be lower than the cost of their health care (otherwise they wouldn't be getting anything out of it).
and we confuse the idea of figuring out why health care is expensive with the idea of helping people afford health insurance and health care. As far as I can tell, the number 1 reason why health care is so expensive is that the folks who could control health care costs (by voting with their dollars) haven't clue #1 about what any health care services actually cost. And until we fix that, we have no hope of figuring out how to reign in health care expenditures.
No. It's been undermined before it even passed by worthless, fucking greedy, self serving, anti-American, anti-Christian republicans. Pull your head out of your ass and check out reality for once in your life.
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Face it, you're a fucking idiot who is so gullible you believed everything the rat bastard republicans said. Why is it you conservatives lie so fucking much? Have you no integrity or morals?
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
So what you're saying is, you're too fucking stupid to understand what "insurance" is. I honestly can't tell if you're just a fucking liar, or actually as completely fucking stupid as your posts make you out to be.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
Well, you also have to give a little credit to some of the post-war people who understood that one of the lead-up problems to WW2 was the draconian measures we forced onto Germany after WW1. At least they were smart enough to try something different to produce a better results. Still not really compassion... but we have a lot of mentally challenged people here in the US who can't be bothered to actually learn what a word means before using it..... or learn anything else, for that matter.
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And yet, when it comes to providing healthcare for all US citizens, it's "fuck them, why should I pay for other people's healthcare".
No, you aren't compassionate and generous.
Exploitative is more accurate.
This is why I will add to my US Citizenship naturalized UK and EU citizenship within the year.
I spent 17 years training (in the US) to be a leader in my field, enhancing the economy and general welfare of US citizens, while also teaching them. A major medical injury ended that career trajectory, and the "social safety net" is telling me to go fuck off now. Back when I had just got my BS, I had several job offers on a management track, which I declined, choosing an advanced education instead. I have essentially sacrificed earning about $2,000,000 in personal salary in order to better serve my country.
The US does not have a social safety net. The US does not have a STEM shortage – just a shortage of fresh graduates who won't insist on salaries that their skills deserve. And over-skilled (read: expensive) talent that is pushed to train all of these babies with their decades of wisdom. . . just before the next round of layoffs/department eliminations/redundancy eliminations or whatever they want to call it.
In the US:
(1) Never be over-qualified
(2) Never have a major medical event
You will be kicked to the curb.
No good deed goes unpunished.
So what you're saying is, you're too fucking stupid to understand what "insurance" is. I honestly can't tell if you're just a fucking liar, or actually as completely fucking stupid as your posts make you out to be.
Insurance is for catastrophic unforeseen events. Obamacare is pre-paid health care. You don't use car insurance to fill your gas tank, change the oil, or get a new tire. Why the hell do you need medical insurance for a routine predictable medical event?
The constitution also states we should only have a standing army during an invasion or insurrection.... but never lasting more than 2 years. It says nothing about an Air Force. It does say a standing Navy, but not a separate Marine Corp. So what you're saying is, we need to disband the entire Army (they've been active more than 2 years now), remove all our military members from all other countries, eliminate all of our Air Force, and move the Marines back into the Navy's chain of command.
OR, are you saying, you don't even know what's in the Constitution, but you just have to bring it up to try to use it's authority to make your ignorance seem useful?
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But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before. Thanks for putting the insurance companies in our pockets, guys! And Obamacare is crumbling, most of the "exchanges" will be defunct by next year if it is left just as the Democrats (it was passed by a partisan super-majority) and Obama intended. Except for the bit where they expected a Democrat to be in the White House to declare it defunct so they could replace it with something worse.
My health insurance, with the same provider providing the same level of coverage, cost 1/3 of what it did before the ACA went into effect.
Why the hell do you need medical insurance for a routine predictable medical event
Because once that routine event turns up something horrible, you won't be insurable.
So Hillary lied in 1996 with the stupid sort of shit many politicians do of vastly overstating danger every time they go onto the same continent as a military situation?
So? What is the point? Hillary is old news and never coming back. Why are you bringing her up quote altering guy? It's not as if you are not a liar yourself.
It's only 5% because economists want to be counted as scientists now.
Education and crisis response are not sciences. If you rely on a physicist to figure out how to save people in a burning building, you are going to have a building full of corpses.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Wasting time introducing internet kooks to facts is an endless wast of time, but just FYI, "Hillary-care" as it was called, was not exactly single payer. That is part of the reason why the Sanders wing of the Democratic party wasn't all that enchanted with her in 2016.
It did have the vast majority of Democrats behind it, and Republicans were absolutely terrified that it would prove to the public that the government can solve problems that private markets can't find profit in solving.
Show this to a poor Republican, "fake news!".
Show this to a rich Republican, "shhh!... I mean, uh, fake news!"
Preventative care doesn't lower costs, though. It increases them. A particular individual may get lucky and have something detected early, but the vast majority won't.
Tribus über alles, it seems.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
If you're a diversity candidate, you get the benefit of the doubt - even if you experience the inconvenience of the courts.
If you're a conservative or undesirable, you're considered Fair Game for anything.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Here is the LinkedIn profile of the last one to go:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/el...
She is a bloody lawyer.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
I may live in Stockholm, but you're the one with the syndrome. And after only 6 months, wow.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
The US did not become involved militarily until after Perl Harbor left them little other option, but they did supply logistical support. That's why Germany spent so much effort on attacking those convoys. Yes, Britain paid, but the supplies would not have gotten through without US government support. Private traders dislike selling to places that result in their ships getting torpedoed.
It's just like any other war: There are plenty of ways in which a non-participant can lend their assistance to one side without having to start shooting. The US sought plausible deniability at the beginning.
Like the one I responded to?
You may live in Stockholm, but that syndrome ain't what you think it is
Your reading comprehension fails. The Office of Science and Technology Policy is the Science Division of the White House. If the OSTP does not have a science division anymore, what are the other 30-something people still doing there?
Seems more like someone got fired and they were deluded enough to think they were or represented an entire division. I think we've all worked with people that thought they were irreplaceable and the only people that did any work at their job.
I'm all for the reduction of staffing at all political levels, if they need any help, they can just reach out to the proper academic resources instead of making up their own stuff, possibly generously 'donated' to by some large shell company.
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If you can pull your head out of your ass long enough to read, and understand, this... then do so; and quit being a gullible fucking idiot. Why are conservatives such worthless fucking liars all the fucking time?
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What has been said of Stanford has been proven through the toxicity of the leftist student population.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
The United States is more than just the 3 million illegals in California and all the leftists on the coastlines.
It is also the citizens that have not seen opportunities return to them - as a result of the prior regime that ended January 20th of this year.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
He represents the US, especially those marginalized by leftist/globalist policies.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.