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Science magazine’s Eli Kintisch announced on a blog this afternoon that Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to become the next White House science adviser. Holdren is a recent past-president and board chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes the journal and website for which Kintisch reports.
Director of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, Holdren currently holds an additional appointment as the director of science, technology and public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and teaches environmental science and public policy in Harvard’s department of Earth and planetary sciences.
Although trained in aerospace engineering and theoretical plasma physics (at MIT and Stanford), Holdren has over the years become involved in a number of social issues with strong scientific underpinnings, including: global environmental change, energy and resource options for industrial and developing countries, and nuclear arms control and nonproliferation.
Along the way, Holdren has garnered many awards, including the 2001 Heinz Award in Public Policy, 2000 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1999 Kaul Foundation Award in Science and Environmental Policy, 1993 Volvo Environment Prize and 1981 MacArthur Foundation fellowship. For a decade in the late ‘80s to ‘90s, Holdren chaired the executive committee of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. When Pugwash won the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, Holdren gave its acceptance lecture.
And no stranger to presidential counsel, this busy man spent six years working for Bill Clinton on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, also known as PCAST.
According to the Science blog, Holdren “flew today to Chicago to meet with the transition team and prepare for the announcement; initial plans are to release the official news of the appointment on a weekly radio program that Obama records and will be broadcast on Saturday.”
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Again and again, with the hope that this takes roots:
Since the 1920s technology development has been THE TOOL of capital formation.
"Implications Of Science And Technology Evolution"
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Since the 1920s technology development has been THE TOOL of capital formation and accumulation, together with their inherent social and societal values, attitudes and life style and even together with their inherent individual and societal-social ethics.
The technology culture has been corrupting the status of science and has relegated science, the banner and hope of human enlightenment and rational evolution, to the file of quaint items. This process has been and is being perpetrated with the dedicated cooperation of the politically entrenched Science Establishment.
As long as Science and Technologhy are considered and handled, conceptually and administratively, as one realm and one faculty this corruption cannot and will not be overcome. This conception and attitude is THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE BY THE 21st CENTURY TECHNOLOGY CULTURE.
I note, with diappointment, acclaim of Obama's picks of AAAS personalities. This, for me, is a reason for sad apprehension. There better be other reasons for the acclaim since AAAS, Science's Establishment Guild, is one of the major perpetrators of the corruption of science by the 21st century technology culture.
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