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Published online 18 February 2009 | Nature 457, 942-943 (2009) | doi:10.1038/457942b
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John Holdren: adviser on science, fish and wine
Confirmation for Obama's candidate.
John Holdren, US President Barack Obama's choice as chief science adviser, faced a single criticism during his otherwise gentle Senate confirmation hearing on 12 February: over the years he had warned of disasters that have yet to materialize.
Given Holdren's qualifications as a physicist and engineer with nearly four decades of work on energy, climate and nuclear proliferation behind him, it was about all the critics had to go on.
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