Congressman Rush D. Holt, Ph.D., who will retire from the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of his eighth term, has agreed to join the world’s largest general scientific organization, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), as chief executive officer and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.
He will succeed Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., who had previously announced that he would be stepping down as AAAS CEO.
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Well, a politician for a political organization.
Another institution marched through…
The great scientists of the past must be turning in the graves!
I will not be joining this organization. I had been tempted. However, naming this awarmist as the organization’s head kills all future consideration.
AAAS American Association for the Abortion of Science
American Scientific Society – ASS
I fail to understand how anybody with a degree in physics , much less a PhD , can swallow this pathetic nonscience .
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