Tuesday, April 13, 2010

White House Science 'Czar' Tells Students: U.S. Can't Expect To Be Number One In Science And Technology Forever


John P. Holdren, director of White House Office Science and Technology Policy. (Wikimedia photo)

(CNSNews.com) –
The Obama administration’s top science and technology official, who has argued for the economic de-development of America, warned science students last Friday that the United States cannot expect to be “number one” forever.

“We can’t expect to be number one in everything indefinitely,” Dr. John P. Holdren said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Holdren is director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST), making him the top science adviser in the administration...