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longship

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4. The last two DOE secretaries were PhD physicists, one who earned a Nobel Prize.
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 08:56 AM
Jan 2017

Both highly regarded in physics, at the top of their field.

Drumpf appoints former TX governor Perry, who if I am not mistaken does not have a science degree -- does he have any college level degree, let alone a PhD? The DOE has control of US nuclear weapons research and development.

I worked at one of the national labs in the late 70's in my senior year of university. Needless to say the security was fucking tight. But everybody who worked there knew their field. My speciality was computer analysis in physics. We worked with teletypes and IBM cards in those days.

Nobody who is sane would argue that Rick Perry is qualified for DOE Secy. NOBODY!

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