RFK Jr. to run the EPA?????

davefoc said:
corplinx is the master of the, is-this-sarcasm-or-is-this-sincere post. His moderate independent political stances make it difficult to tell exactly where he's coming from based on his overall outlook.
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Thanks for the heads up. I presumed it was serious. At the JREF, it is very difficult to tell, especially in the conspiracy forum!
 
portlandatheist said:
Thanks for the heads up. I presumed it was serious. At the JREF, it is very difficult to tell, especially in the conspiracy forum!
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:)

Especially when you jump into the middle of one of those threads. It seems like nobody could be serious but somewhere in there there's one person who is, or maybe not, maybe he's just screwing with the people who think they're screwing with him.
 
dudalb said:
We already have a thread about this. I suggest they be merged.
People, could we actually search a little for a thread about a topic before starting a new one?
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They aren't always easy to find. The search function is a pain because of the need to wait 60 seconds before changing your search terms if you don't word the search to get a hit the first time.

I started this thread yesterday: Tell Obama: RF Kennedy Jr is not the man for the job Fine with me if the mods want to merge it with this one.

The reason for objecting to this appointment is on principle. If RFK cannot distinguish between good science and bad science, how is he qualified for this position?
 
corplinx said:
.... He has to pay Teddy back for the early endorsement.
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Despite your usual banter, I have to say, that is an interesting angle I had not thought of. Not that we have a clue if it is factual, but it does bear consideration as a reason Obama might have considered RFK in the first place.
 
Puppycow said:
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I posted this on the blog:
RF Kennedy’s failure to distinguish good science from bad science should disqualify him from this position.

The scientific community is not in some conspiracy with Big Pharma over vaccines and autism, nor are they Big Pharma dupes. The evidence is in and vaccines are unrelated to autism. Time to move on to investigating other causes of autism.

Someone who hasn’t figured that out isn’t someone who should be in charge of the EPA. The job requires a basic understanding of research and the scientific method.
Comment by Skeptigirl - November 15, 2008 at 1:32 am
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Lisa Jackson to head the EPA

ETA:
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama will name Nobel Prize-winner Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to head the Department of Energy, a person close to the presidential transition said.

Lisa Jackson, former commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and current chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, is Obama’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, the person said.
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Focus on Science

“He certainly needs somebody who can focus on the science and energy policies and I can’t think of a better guy than Steve,” said Mike Lubell, a physics professor at the City College of New York, who has known Chu for 30 years.

Since taking over as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in August 2004, Chu has pushed the lab to focus on climate change and on developing new carbon-neutral sources of energy, said Robert J. Birgeneau, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

“He has been relentless about addressing the technical challenges of renewable energy in a deep way,” said Birgeneau, who has known Chu for three decades since the two men worked at Bell Laboratories in the 1970s. “We will now have an energy policy that can mean the U.S. will have a chance of obtaining energy self-sufficiency through new technology.”

Lynn Yarris, a spokeswoman for Chu, declined to comment.

Chu played a leading role in Berkeley being selected by BP Plc as the home of a $500 million research program to develop a new generation of renewable fuels.
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The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a non-profit alliance of local, state and federal employees, say Jackson’s record in New Jersey should “disqualify” her from running EPA.

They claim Jackson allowed politics to sway her policy decisions and that she suppressed scientific data.

Jackson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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I think I'm starting to see a pattern of shoddy, unreliable reporting with Politico. They're the original source of this RFK Jr. speculation.
 
CapelDodger said:
Told you so :).
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Well, I thought I said it first, but in reviewing the thread all I did was say that you might be right. I notice that once the facts were in my mind had forgotten any uncertainty and just remembered that I thought that the name bandying stuff was bogus and Kennedy had no shot. Oh well, let me congratulate you on your well deserved I told you so.
 
skeptigirl said:
Lisa Jackson chosen to head the EPA
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What do these New Jersey people think they know?
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a non-profit alliance of local, state and federal employees, say Jackson’s record in New Jersey should “disqualify” her from running EPA.

They claim Jackson allowed politics to sway her policy decisions and that she suppressed scientific data.
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What, a politician allowing politics to sway a policy decisions? Call 911, it's an emergency! :jaw-dropp
 
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