The US Senate: All Lawyers and Businessmen, Not One Scientist
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There is not a single former scientist-turned-senator, which I must say is very disappointing since unless they were EPA (or other niche) lawyers or have pursued a single scientific issue as doggedly as Al Gore has, none of them appear to have a firm grasp on current scientific affairs... or even the scientific method itself.
Here is a list of Senate Committees that have something to do with research or science-related policymaking in this country and anyone on such a committee who has any grounding in science at all. I'm grasping at straws with some of these people, but here ...
