Trump science nominees have fewer advanced degrees in the field

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Source: CBS News

WASHINGTON -- When it comes to filling jobs dealing with complex science, environment and health issues, the Trump administration is nominating people with fewer science academic credentials than their Obama predecessors. And it's moving slower as well.

Of 43 Trump administration nominees in science-related positions -- including two for Health and Human Services secretary -- almost 60 percent did not have a master's degree or a doctorate in a science or health field, according to an Associated Press analysis. For their immediate predecessors in the Obama administration, it was almost the opposite: more than 60 percent had advanced science degrees.

The AP analyzed 65 Senate-confirmable positions that deal with science and environment, many of which haven't been filled yet after 10 months. The analysis focused on earned degrees, not life experience.

"This is just reflective of the disdain that the administration has shown for science," said Christie Todd Whitman, a former Republican New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency chief.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-science-nominees-missing-advanced-science-degrees/

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No Nobel Laureates on 45*s staff. Unlike Pres. Obama 45* just doesn't have a clue about what it means to get expert advice.

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1. Technically, a doctorate in theology is an advanced degree

[Red Pest]

2. Facts? We don't need no stinking facts

This story is not at all surprising. We have an administration that does not think that anything is true or provable. They do not understand that when we talk about science, we are talking about using the scientific method to investigate and discover how things work. To the Trumpists, it is all just opinion and the only opinions that count are those of their benefactors, their donors. Money talks and all else is bullshit.

I would not care except that their decisions will affect all of us - increased global climate change, increased pollution, increased disease, loss of our technological advantage & loss of good jobs to countries that will invest in science.

None of this matters to Trump's diehard supporters, as they BELIEVE in Trump, in their little manufactured world of fantasy (creation not evolution; clean coal - just wash and it will be clean; coal mining jobs will come back; the air is too clean; those vaccines will cause autism and on and on).

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3. More swamping the drain. nt