{"id":21065,"date":"2025-01-29T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21065"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:30:05","slug":"why-trump-picked-a-science-advisor-michael-kratsios-who-isnt-a-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21065","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Picked a Science Advisor, Michael Kratsios, Who Isn\u2019t a Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

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President Trump last week formally nominated<\/a> Michael Kratsios, a member of the first Trump administration with no degrees in science or engineering, to be his science adviser.<\/p>\n

Science policy experts say that Mr. Kratsios\u2019 wide experience in private and public technology policy and management is what makes him an attractive candidate. His expertise includes a central role in early federal efforts to speed the rise of artificial intelligence and to compete with China in its development. He will join a cohort of White House advisers<\/a> on the fraught topic.<\/p>\n

Even so, Mr. Trump\u2019s selection marks a clear break from a long tradition in which presidential science advisers bore top degrees and deep science roots. The appointment of Mr. Kratsios has led other experts to warn of budget cuts to the health and physical sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an utter disaster,\u201d said Michael S. Lubell<\/a>, a professor of physics at the City College of New York and former spokesman for the American Physical Society, the world\u2019s largest group of physicists. \u201cClimate science is dead. God knows what\u2019s going to happen to biomedicine. This marks the beginning of the decline of the golden age of American science.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Neal F. Lane<\/a>, a physicist who served as President Bill Clinton\u2019s science adviser, said the nomination of Mr. Kratsios represented a profound shift. \u201cThe first Trump administration had a science adviser with extraordinary credentials,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That official was Kelvin Droegemeier<\/a>, a meteorologist who received his Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For almost a decade, up to his White House appointment, Dr. Droegemeier served as vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma, a pioneering center in the development of weather forecasting. He also served from 2004 to 2016 on the National Science Board<\/a>, which oversees the National Science Foundation and gives independent advice to Congress and the president.<\/p>\n

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Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence.President Trump last week formally nominated Michael Kratsios, a member of the first Trump administration with no degrees in science or engineering, to be his science adviser.Science policy experts say that Mr. Kratsios\u2019 wide experience in private and public technology policy and management is what makes him an attractive candidate. His expertise includes a central role in early federal efforts to speed the rise of artificial intelligence and to compete with China in its development. He will join a cohort of White House advisers on the fraught topic.Even so, Mr. Trump\u2019s selection marks a clear break from a long tradition in which presidential science advisers bore top degrees and deep science roots. The appointment of Mr. Kratsios has led other experts to warn of budget cuts to the health and physical sciences.\u201cThis is an utter disaster,\u201d said Michael S. Lubell, a professor of physics at the City College of New York and former spokesman for the American Physical Society, the world\u2019s largest group of physicists. \u201cClimate science is dead. God knows what\u2019s going to happen to biomedicine. This marks the beginning of the decline of the golden age of American science.\u201dNeal F. Lane, a physicist who served as President Bill Clinton\u2019s science adviser, said the nomination of Mr. Kratsios represented a profound shift. \u201cThe first Trump administration had a science adviser with extraordinary credentials,\u201d he said.That official was Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorologist who received his Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For almost a decade, up to his White House appointment, Dr. Droegemeier served as vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma, a pioneering center in the development of weather forecasting. He also served from 2004 to 2016 on the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation and gives independent advice to Congress and the president.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21067,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21068,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions\/21068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}