AT LAST, the wait is over. The US has a Science Advisor, John H. Marburger
III. Not since Floyd Kvamme was named as chairman of the President’s Council of
Advisors on Science and Technology has there been such excitement in Washington
science policy circles.
Well, maybe excitement is the wrong word. Perhaps relief would be more like
it. Or better still—at least among the science policy elite—ennui.
The reason for the muted response has nothing to do with Marburger, who has
reasonable credentials. Currently director of Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Marburger is a physicist and a Democrat (so the…
