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by Joe DePaolo | 6:27 pm, December 14th, 2016
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has been tapped by Donald Trump to be Secretary of Energy, has a scientific background that pales dramatically in comparison to the last three men to hold the office.
A report in the Daily Beast included a copy of Perrys transcript from Texas A&M, which the former Governor graduated in 1972 with an Animal Science degree. The transcript shows that Perry had difficulty with some of his science courses.
In the spring of 1970, he flunked Organic Chemistry II. He also got a C in physics, and a number of other Cs and Ds.
Samuel Bodman President George W. Bushs second appointee to the post earned a doctorate in chemical engineering from MIT. (He went on to serve as director of MITs School of Engineering Practice. Steven Chu who served through President Barack Obamas first term won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. And Ernest Moniz who currently serves in the office was the head of the physics department at MIT for five years.
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Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)rickford66
(5,498 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)1) A nobel prize winner in physics
2) A PhD in physics from Stanford, a professor of physics and chair of the department
@ MIT, an expert in energy, and 30 years working in nuclear non proliferation.
justhanginon
(3,287 posts)trouble accepting these positions of great responsibility knowing full well that they are eminently unqualified to run these important cabinet level appointments. Their sense of self importance and lust for power evidently overcomes any desire to see this country run intelligently and with the welfare of our country and its people as the most important factor.
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Look at the list of boneheaded ignoramuses heading up govt agencies. They aren't the best and the brightest, and they bring zero knowledge or expertise to the job. This is by intent. A person must actually have the education and training to make key decision that not only affect our whole country, and the world. Trump's picks do not. That leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and at the mercy of special interest groups eager to push their causes to the forefront and capitalize on the bottomless well of stupidity that the Republicans have dragged in from that swamp they own.
Mendocino
(7,431 posts)of chemistry stopped after he discovered that grain products can be turned into alcohol.