News Science!
November 07,2008 
About: Oliver Willis
- Oliver Willis has been a blogger since 2000 and has one of the most visited sites in the liberal blogosphere. A widely followed Huffington Post contributor and employee for Media Matters, Oliver is one of the major voices on the progressive Left. As the Boston Globe notes, ‘When Oliver Willis talks, the blogosphere cares.’
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You mean – the Bible doesn’t explain it all?!
BP-
Clarissa explains it all (like how Africa is so totally a country- you betcha).
ZOMG!!!!! He’s going to BLIND us with SCIENCE!!!!!
A president who believes in science at last. Thank God.
I hope this means those rumors of RFKjr in the cabinet are wrong!
Then let’s hope that this rumor is false. It’s a bad precedent for the new administration.
Didn’t see Kelly’s post there.
Good heavens Miss Sakamoto! You’re beautiful!
Agreed with Kelly & Jelly — if Obama believes in scientific rigor, then RFK Jr. has no place in any science-related position in the Obama Administration. The consideration of Kerry for Sec.State also worries me as a patronage, you-endorsed-me-here’s-your-reward possibility. I think Obama is too concerned about correcting the image that he is inexperienced. Biden should have been enough to deal with that. Let’s have an Administration with some newer names and regional diversity, and not the same ol’ Boston Dems.
We can has metric system finally?
“man rode on dinosaurs”-Todd Palin while homeschooling Piper
I understand the concern for appearing too quid pro quo, but how about Richardson for State?
One would hope that President Obama’s example of being a Christian who believes in global warming, evolution, etc., would rub off a bit in the Bible Belt.
Yes, I realize that’s the same as saying the Care Bears will come down and show them the way.
Hope he leaves RFK off of the list.
go here and let Obama know how we feel about RFK: http://www.change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople
What even Republicans are quietly conceding is that the no-regulation model promulgated by the Bush Admin, especially for the FDA, is sickening and even killing people. It’s also bad for trade and the economy, as consumers both in the U.S. and worldwide panic over this tomato is safe or that drug is from an un-reviewed plant in China. So one of the top priorities of a science-minded Obama Admin has to be the proper regulation of what we’re putting into our bodies.
RFK Jr. doesn’t fit that agenda, nor do the people who just don’t like hormones and genetically modified food but can’t put forward a scientific rationale for banning them. A rejection of Republicans no-regulation regime is not an embrace of irrational regulation. However, we need to double the size of inspection staff to monitor both U.S. and foreign produced food, drugs and cosmetics. Obama can’t retreat in the face of Republican bitching about an increase in the size of government — he has to make the case that the number of government regulators has to grow in proportion to the amount of stuff produced, or else the government cannot do its job.
OT, Just saw the Skins picked up DeAngelo Hall, OW. Congrats.
I’ve also heard Kathleen McGinty (former head of the PA Department of Environmental Protection) for the EPA job which would be a much better idea.
dammit, parthenon, you beat me to it. I was thinking Oliver would have to be pretty ecstatic about picking up a pro bowl DB for pennies on the dollar..
No classes today, I sit around and write and get all the good scoops.
Hall is a bargain if he’s happy; a penny spent is a penny wasted if he’s going to be a diva. (Just don’t put him on Steve Smith one-on-one if they run up against Carolina in the playoffs.) But he likes to win and be around good players, so for this year at least, he’ll probably be a good team guy in Washington.
Dubya believes in science, as long as its only used for making cocktails and not for improving people’s lives.
Which is why suggestions that RFK jr would be given a cabinet level position at Interior or EPA make me cringe.