boston.com - 1/18/2009
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The position of science adviser requires Senate confirmation. John Holdren's nomination is likely to sail through, but conscientious senators might wish to ask him some questions.
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foxnews.com - 1/23/2009
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Friday, January 23, 2009 By Paul Wagenseil Is
the White House in the technological dark ages? Hardly,
say the people who just left it. Former Bush administration staffers disputed the tone of a Washington Post story published Thursday that described ...
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foxnews.com - 1/24/2009
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Friday, January 23, 2009 Video of what some
speculate is a UFO flying over President Obama's inauguration
has circulated over the Internet, The Sun has reported. The video shows an unknown object flying past the Washington Monument, as nearly two ...
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... over the past couple of weeks. His latest is a whinefest about How The Skeptics Are Being Oppressed By Obama By Way Of His Appointees. Click here for the latest cheap entertainment from Mr. Jacoby. ...
Viking Pundit —
So much for objective science – It looks like Obama's choice for science advisor believes in free inquiry in that you're free to agree with his theories. Here's Jeff Jacoby on John Holdren : " Holdren is a physicist, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, director of the Woods Hole Research Center, and author or coauthor of many papers and books. He is also a doom-and-gloomer with a trail of erroneous apocalyptic forecasts dating back nearly 40 years - and a decided lack of tolerance for ...
Y2Kyoto: Obama's Nostradamus
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January 19, 2009 Y2Kyoto: Obama's Nostradamus “some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century.” - Dr. John.P Holdren, 1971 (pdf) ...
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