Update 11/26/2020: This article got WAY more traction than I was expecting and there are a lot of comments with valid cr

It can be the most vanilla sex he’s ever had. You could lay on each other like two pieces of damp toast. You could dead fish it, girl. It literally doesn’t matter what you do because he’ll be so starved for human connection that he’ll most likely finish before you even have time to fake your orgasm.

Git is a powerful tool. And, in my opinion, the only version control system software developers should be using in 2020. Perhaps there will be a new king in town one day. But in 2020, Git is the only solution worth investing your time with. Why? Because everyone uses it! Literally, everyone.

When John Holdren and I sat down in his office, it only took a few minutes of small talk before he made a bold proclamation: “I sincerely think [Barack Obama] is the most science-savvy president since Thomas Jefferson,” he said. “And there’s a lot more science to be savvy about.”

The concept had several iterations, but in general it called for the use of nuclear-powered space-based lasers and mirrors (again: sound familiar?) that would shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles fired from the Soviet Union. Keyworth became known as “one of the Administration’s most ardent proselytizers for the proposal.” He called research into the concept “an absolutely vital catalyst to real arms control.”

On their way out the door, Holdren’s staff at OSTP put together a collection of 100 science-related accomplishments of the Obama presidency (“We had to struggle to get it down to 100,” Holdren told me), and looking through the list it seems hard to argue his point. Obama used the stimulus spending in 2009 to inject extra billions into NIH research coffers, fostered multiple initiatives to improve STEM education, launched precision medicine programs and brain research drives, and a wide variety of other achievements — and that’s all before we get to his focus on combating climate change, one of the signature efforts of his entire presidency, if one that was stymied at many turns by a reality-denying Congress.

In the Obama White House, this was apparently a standard occurrence. The president would often read an article about some scientific topic, and issue notes to his staff: “I need to know what Holdren thinks on this.”

This Stars Wars evangelism ran in the face of scientific scorn. A report prepared in April 1984 for Congress concluded that the possibility of a functional nukes-and-lasers system “is so remote that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy about ballistic missile defense.” In general, one would hope that such a scathing conclusion — shared across much of the scientific community — would hold some sway over the president’s science advisor and thus over the president. It did not.

Keyworth’s insistence on cheerleading over scientific advocacy represents another low point in the advisor’s history, though even he had his bright spots. Funding for science did improve some over his tenure, for which (if we can again break Neal Lane’s rule regarding blame or credit) he received some accolades. It makes the assessment of this role’s impact all the more difficult. In 1975, William Golden wrote to a colleague as President Ford undertook the work of rebuilding what Nixon had torn down: “A second-rate science adviser,” he wrote, “is likely to be worse than none at all. We shall see.”

George Keyworth participated in a panel discussion in 1988, a few years after he had left the White House, and highlighted an important distinction that Holdren’s later role bore out: “People often focus, mistakenly in my opinion, on ‘access’ to the president. Assuredly this is important, but how that access is achieved is a far more central issue.” The best measure of one’s access, he said, is “how often one’s advice is sought by the President.” An advisor can’t just barge in and advise; like a vampire at your window, he must be invited in.

In the end, obviously, though billions of dollars were spent and years wasted, the U.S. does not have a series of lasers in space ready to shoot down incoming missiles. Though this battle continued long after Keyworth resigned in late 1985, he seems to have been somewhat beaten down by this, or other episodes. Earlier that year, he gave a scathing interview, accusing the press — which he said was “drawn from a relatively narrow fringe element on the far left” — of “trying to tear down America.”

The focus on scientific endeavors should not, however, make anyone feel all that much better about science’s place in the White House, or the advisor’s role in establishing that place. This particular president just happened to be a science geek.

Chances are, he’s coming off of a seven-month quarantine where the only person he’s talked to is the guy on the unemployment line… and, even then, things got real uncomfortable when he asked the operator what he was wearing. Restore a tantalizing sense of normalcy by bringing back this oldie but still lack-luster mediocrity.

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It can be the most vanilla sex he’s ever had. You could lay on each other like two pieces of damp toast. You could dead fish it, girl. It literally doesn’t matter what you do because he’ll be so starved for human connection that he’ll most likely finish before you even have time to fake your orgasm.

Holdren told me a story of meeting then-Senator Obama in 2007, before he ran for president. “He has a mode of deepening his understanding, which is a very effective one,” he said. “He arranges for his staff to find eight or ten of what they regard as the most interesting and best informed people in the country on a given topic, but from different perspectives, and he assembles them for a three-hour private dinner, and he conducts a dinner conversation like an orchestra conductor with these folks sitting around the table. And he extracts from them what they know and think about the topic.” Holdren was invited to such a dinner on climate change, along with other academics, an oil executive, some NGO types, and so on; he sat next to the senator, and they hit it off enough to be offered a job not long afterward. These modern-day salons clearly shaped the president’s time in office; but it isn’t how most presidents operate.