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In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com)
Anonymous readers share a report: As President Trump prepares to meet Kim Jong-un of North Korea to negotiate denuclearization, a challenge that has bedeviled the world for years, he is doing so without the help of a White House science adviser or senior counselor trained in nuclear physics. Mr. Trump is the first president since 1941 not to name a science adviser, a position created during World War II to guide the Oval Office on technical matters ranging from nuclear warfare to global pandemics. As a businessman and president, Mr. Trump has proudly been guided by his instincts. Nevertheless, people who have participated in past nuclear negotiations say the absence of such high-level expertise could put him at a tactical disadvantage in one of the weightiest diplomatic matters of his presidency.
"You need to have an empowered senior science adviser at the table," said R. Nicholas Burns, who led negotiations with India over a civilian nuclear deal during the George W. Bush administration. "You can be sure the other side will have that." The lack of traditional scientific advisory leadership in the White House is one example of a significant change in the Trump administration: the marginalization of science in shaping United States policy. There is no chief scientist at the State Department, where science is central to foreign policy matters such as cybersecurity and global warming. Nor is there a chief scientist at the Department of Agriculture: Mr. Trump last year nominated Sam Clovis, a former talk-show host with no scientific background, to the position, but he withdrew his name and no new nomination has been made.
"You need to have an empowered senior science adviser at the table," said R. Nicholas Burns, who led negotiations with India over a civilian nuclear deal during the George W. Bush administration. "You can be sure the other side will have that." The lack of traditional scientific advisory leadership in the White House is one example of a significant change in the Trump administration: the marginalization of science in shaping United States policy. There is no chief scientist at the State Department, where science is central to foreign policy matters such as cybersecurity and global warming. Nor is there a chief scientist at the Department of Agriculture: Mr. Trump last year nominated Sam Clovis, a former talk-show host with no scientific background, to the position, but he withdrew his name and no new nomination has been made.
This is fucking stupid anti-Trump garbage. The anti-Trump people are calling Trump all sorts of names and 'anti-Science' is just another one of them. The meeting with Kim Jong-Un is 100% politics - and it's something that only exists because of Trump. The previous 2 US presidents failed miserably on any positive relations with North Korea. There is no stance on science being taken in this meeting other than Trump is conducting the negotiations rather than a rainbow team of pseudo-experts working to obfuscate the real issues.
Maybe instead of criticizing Trump all the time, you should start taking his advice. He's been right; you've been wrong. Trump continues to impress me every day he is in office. I did not start off as a supporter - but he won me over early on after I listened directly to what he said rather than a bunch of lying dishonorable talking heads on TV.
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One way or another, I have a sneaking suspicion he'll be the last, "businessman" to be "elected" to be "president" of the "United" States.
He wasn't elected .. he was putin power!
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and he made it very, very clear he'd oppose any effort to address or even recognize climate change or do anything whatsoever that would get in the way of business (under the theory we'd all be better off thanks to a large increase in employment opportunities).
/. (which is ostensibly a site for pro-science nerds) when it was so obvious Trump would oppose everything this site stands for. I mean, yeah, I don't like Hilary and voted against her in the primary, but she at least has a firm grasp on reality and believes in the scientific method.
This is exactly what we signed on for, America. What I find odd is that there's so many pro Trump folks on
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If he's unsure of who to trust, perhaps he should look at how Trump treats his allies.
You mean actual U.S. allies like Israel, India, Saudi Arabia, or Japan?
Yes, yes it would make pretty clear how the U.S. treats real allies instead of bullshit artists who want nothing to do with possible U.S. success and work hard against it.
I'm sure Kim has factored this in as well; for as crazy as he may be he's also been pretty shrewd.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It takes resources to do Science; the best thing we've got to create flows of resources is a Free Market.
Trump is probably the most pro-Free-Market President we've had in a very long time, and even then he's not very pro-Free-Market.