Obama Names Himself ‘Scientist-in-Chief’: Being a convincing liar can get you pretty far in this country . . . at least as far as The White House. Largely this is because ascending to the position requires the consensus of a people far more interested in American Idol than they are in the American ideal. Science, however, carries a higher standard for success. Results matter. Metrics matter. And you can’t excel at it, or even consider yourself a part of it, if your only association with the discipline is anointing yourself its leader. To be fair to President Daft Vader this may not be his entire fault. He knows so little about anything that it is likely he is ignorant of this as well.
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