Obama’s science adviser targeted by smear campaign

[bananas]

From Joe Romm's blog at Climate Progress:

Obama’s science adviser targeted by smear campaign
August 24, 2009

Conservative media outlets are waging an online defamation campaign against Presidential Science Advisor Jon Holdren, using out-of-context quotes and misinformation to portray him as hell-bent on pursuing population control through the use of forced abortions and mass sterilization.

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I have known Holdren for over a decade and have discussed energy/climate issues with him many times. He probably has more combined expertise on both climate science and clean energy technology than any other person who could plausibly have been named science adviser. You can see a video of an excellent talk he gave here (along with talks by Chu and me). For a more recent BBC interview, see “The Climate Quote of the Week“.

He is about as far from a partisan flamethrower or radical environmentalist as one could possibly find among the scientific community.

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He was unanimously confirmed.

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[Arctic Dave]

1. Fundie nutjobs hate science, industrial polluters hate science. No surprise here.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. The rw has this narrative going and will pull anyone into a sub-plot to tell the story.

And the loons eat it up- hook, line and sinker.