Energy Secretary Quietly Dismantles Independent Science Advisory Board

[Nordmadr]

Energy Secretary Quietly Dismantles Independent Science Advisory Board

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has quietly disbanded the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), the department’s “principal independent advisory board on scientific and technical matters,” reports Nature magazine.

The board, established by President Carter in 1978, is “a mix of distinguished scientists, such as Nobel laureate Burton Richter, and business executives, such as former ExxonMobil chairman Lee Raymond.”

The Energy Department said the board is no longer necessary because Bodman has his own “scientific” background. But Bodman isn’t the first Energy secretary with scientific training. James D. Watkins, President George H.W. Bush’s Energy Secretary who received his masters degree in mechanical engineering and completed a reactor engineering course at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, kept the panel in place during his tenure.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/10/bodman-science-board/

Numerous links in article.

Don't like whatthe advisory board recommends, so just add them to the trash heap. What do those pesky scientists know anyway?

Olafr

[BOSSHOG]

1. Don't need no stinking advisory board

Republicans don't need no scientific evidence, most likely faked to push an evil liberal agenda. Republicans just need to believe and go to church. Scientific and technical matters, fuck em. "Christians" don't need no advice.

[Nordmadr]

4. You see the key thing there is they are supposed to be

"independent" advisors. Can't be havin' none of that now. Now if they were Republican manipulated scientists, well, hey Johnny my boy, that would be just swell.

"You can easily jusdge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
-James D Miles

[Flying Dream Blues]

2. Nothing's too important to transcend the evil agenda planned for us.

I've gone beyond anger...it's pure grief at this point. I am losing hope!

[TomInTib]

3. We're talking cutting-edge "scientific" background, here..

Born in 1938 in Chicago, he graduated in 1961 with a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University.

Advisors? He don't need no independent advisors.

But then again, he has that Treasury and Commerce experience, don't he?

Bastards

[Supersedeas]

5. There's only room for ONE scientist in this town--Partna' that's meh!