Crackpot John Holdren Will Become Obama's Science Adviser

Crackpot President hires crackpot science advisor. Who would have ever thought that would be the case. Maybe they believe the whole of the country is not educated enough to realize a crackpot when they see one. John Hoilden is his name and he claims to be a scientist -- Do you want to know what is his specialization? Well, look at his publication list at scholar.google.com. Yep, that's him, a big deciple of the "Paul Ehrlich population bomb" and it's effect on the poor poor helpless planet.

A real crackpot, not a scientist. Luboš Motl at the blog The Reference Frame had this to say about Holden.

There is absolutely no valuable content in anything that Holdren has ever produced. It's just plain bullshit sold in such a way that gullible people happily eat it and smack their lips.

I simply can't stand pompous fools like that. Because of his Harvard affiliation, I may have talked to him during a Society of Fellows dinner and I may have forgotten: it's hard to imagine that I could smile with the knowledge I have today. You may also see Richard Lindzen's essay to learn more about the methods how John Holdren and others have elected themselves to the National Academy of Sciences and similar bodies. It's plain disgusting.

It's very bad that people whose approach to the world is the exact opposite of science - because they prefer irrational phobias, "prestige" of symposia, and visible jobs paid by gullible manipulated folks over rational, humble, careful, and ever more refined scientific arguments and findings - are being linked to science, and it is bad that President-elect Obama is helping to distort the definition of science and its proper role in the society in this way.

Just what the world of science doesn't need, a crackpot polluting and stinking up the world of science with dimwitted crap.