Sunday, January 18, 2009

So much for objective science – It looks like Obama's choice for science advisor believes in free inquiry in that you're free to agree with his theories. Here's Jeff Jacoby on John Holdren: "Holdren is a physicist, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, director of the Woods Hole Research Center, and author or coauthor of many papers and books. He is also a doom-and-gloomer with a trail of erroneous apocalyptic forecasts dating back nearly 40 years - and a decided lack of tolerance for environmental opinions that conflict with his."

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