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Who has the ear of the president?

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50 years after the appointment of the first presidential science adviser, the White House is flooded with scientific information. Roger Pielke Jr suggests how the next administration might develop ways to use it best.

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  1. Roger Pielke Jr is at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA. pielke@colorado.edu ,

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Pielke, R. Who has the ear of the president?. Nature 450, 347–348 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450347a

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