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Fantastic!
Wow, an actual scientist with real credentials being appointed to the appropriate job.
This hasn’t happened for eight years.
Yeah, but will he swear allegiance to Dear Leader, endorse Creationism, and not mention Global Warming?
Smart guys in charge! huzzah!
Holy crap – I know that you have to be a tiny bit of a politician to get high up in academia, but still – HE’S FROM ACADEMIA!
As an embryonic, or perhaps larval, academic, I’ve been a bit curious about the question of advanced degrees in the cabinet. Without bestirring myself to actually look, the only Bush appointee I know has a postgraduate research degree was Condoleezza Rice. I say “postgraduate research degree” so as to exclude postgraduate professional degrees such as MBA, JD, or MD, and obviously not to denigrate those degree.
Now, there’s a reasonable argument to be made that the skill set to get a PhD and a professorship is different from running an agency with thousands or tens of thousands of professionals, and negotiating with Congress, but it would be nice to see more people from an academic background. Just to throw out one obvious example, Shirley Tilghman. Member of the National Academy, President of Princeton for most of a decade, on the board of Google – she’d make a great HHS secretary or maybe an NIH director.
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A Nobel Laureate as a cabinet member?!
Kull wahad. This reminds me of GB Shaw’s cranky
remark in the preface to “Heartbreak House” to the
effect that the only way someone burdened with a
serious cultural equipment could get into Parliament
was by the accident of being born a hereditary peer.
And an actual veteran has been named Secretary of
Veterans Affairs.