Trump's latest senior science nominees are a talk-radio ignoramus and a career poisoner
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2X2RN)
The Department of Agriculture's chief scientist oversees more than 1,000 scientists in 100 research facilities: Trump's pick to run the agency is Sam Clovis, a climate-denying talk-radio host who not only lacks any kind of scientific degrees -- he didn't take a single science course at university. (more")