Former Labradoodle Breeder Was Tapped To Lead US Pandemic Task Force (reuters.com) 175
Aram Roston and Marisa Taylor, reporting for Reuters: On January 21, the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravaged China. Alex Azar, a 52-year-old lawyer and former drug industry executive, assured Americans the U.S. government was prepared. "We developed a diagnostic test at the CDC, so we can confirm if somebody has this," Azar said. "We will be spreading that diagnostic around the country so that we are able to do rapid testing on site." While coronavirus in Wuhan, China, was "potentially serious," Azar assured viewers in America, it "was one for which we have a playbook." Azar's initial comments misfired on two fronts. Like many U.S. officials, from President Donald Trump on down, he underestimated the pandemic's severity. He also overestimated his agency's preparedness.
As is now widely known, two agencies Azar oversaw as HHS secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn't come up with viable tests for five and half weeks, even as other countries and the World Health Organization had already prepared their own. Shortly after his televised comments, Azar tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency's day-to-day response to COVID-19. The aide, Brian Harrison, had joined the department after running a dog-breeding business for six years. Five sources say some officials in the White House derisively called him "the dog breeder." Azar's optimistic public pronouncement and choice of an inexperienced manager are emblematic of his agency's oft-troubled response to the crisis. His HHS is a behemoth department, overseeing almost every federal public health agency in the country, with a $1.3 trillion budget that exceeds the gross national product of most countries.
As is now widely known, two agencies Azar oversaw as HHS secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn't come up with viable tests for five and half weeks, even as other countries and the World Health Organization had already prepared their own. Shortly after his televised comments, Azar tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency's day-to-day response to COVID-19. The aide, Brian Harrison, had joined the department after running a dog-breeding business for six years. Five sources say some officials in the White House derisively called him "the dog breeder." Azar's optimistic public pronouncement and choice of an inexperienced manager are emblematic of his agency's oft-troubled response to the crisis. His HHS is a behemoth department, overseeing almost every federal public health agency in the country, with a $1.3 trillion budget that exceeds the gross national product of most countries.
Only the Best People. (Score:5, Insightful)
Heckuva job.
A crony got the job. A goodfella. That's what counts.
Seriously, how do people still manage to go around defending this indefensible clusterf**k of an administration? And accuse anyone making even the slightest critique as carriers of TDS.
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Re:Only the Best People. (Score:4, Informative)
Great. Now was this dog breeder hired on the basis on his expertise in leading teams and complicated projects, or was he hired because he gave some money to a campaign and shows personal loyalty to the president? Sure, you've seen some good program managers, and how many of those were nephews of the CEO who didn't go through an interview process?
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Looks like he has HHS experience but almost no public health experience.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/lead... [hhs.gov]
I'm not willing to condemn him no the basis of being a labradoodle breeder.
But if Trump picked him-it's more likely that he's a suckup yes man than that he's competent.
It's okay. I've got a freezer - 6 months food- ppe- home defense- and once all you conservatives get thru dying off from drinking the kool-aid, I'll be ready to come back out and vote blue no matter who in november.
No personal opinion on
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That what the managerial schools claim. Sometimes it works. Often, though, things they don't understand will cause problems. They need lots of competent subordinates who aren't afraid to tell them about problems. The manager isn't equipped to understand problems, and has to take on faith that the proper action is the one recommended.
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That is not this guy (Score:4, Informative)
And you can google his background. He bounces around cushy federal jobs and lobbyist positions. He was a pharma lobbyist for fucks sake. We put the fox in charge of the hen house, and it wasn't even a very smart fox.
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The better program managers I've worked with had barely passing familiarity with the technology I use. But they were awesome at coordinating tasks, identifying blockages between teams/individuals, and ensuring a smooth flow of information and forward momentum. You don't have to understand the technology of a problem to be able to coordinate the team solving the problem.
Yes, they didn't have much familiarity with the technology. But I bet they had *loads* of experience with the *business* they were in. At least, that's my experience with competent managers. And the best ones did their utmost to get familiarized with the relevant aspects of the technology they had to make decisions on. Any sign of that here?
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The better program managers I've worked with had barely passing familiarity with the technology I use. But they were awesome at coordinating tasks, identifying blockages between teams/individuals, and ensuring a smooth flow of information and forward momentum ...
you had me until you mentioned "forward momentum" ... from that point on you made as little sense as all the bad managers i've met in my professional life did, which were the vast majority of them. pure fluff.
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Did they also have "minimal experience" managing projects in your technical field? No? Then your analogy is not useful. Worse, it's a distraction.
All the better program managers I've worked with understood the issues at NO MORE than one level of abstraction higher than me. Plus they understood the issues at that level across many different fields of expertise such that they had both breadth and depth of te
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The biggest negative factor is that he was chosen by a leader who's lost 2/3 of his administration to corruption, fraud, and scandals in just 3 years.
Citation needed.
Re:Only the Best People. (Score:4)
I always liked the British system where they have a set of seasoned long term professionals who know how to get things done, and the elected officials going through the revolving door with political whims have to work extra hard to try and screw it all up, they can't just write memos and turn the state 180 degrees. In the States some call this "the deep state" with implications that if elected officials do not have dictatorial powers then democracy is being subverted.
Ok, maybe they whine today that they can't just screw it all up like they want to, but they were certainly very happy about it that Obama was thwarted in the same way. They forget that if you give the executive immense power today then some day an executive from a different party will have that same power. Short sighted naivete.
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The bureaucrats do the job they're told to do. The new minister does not go down all the ranks and files and say "please stop sending this much money out in the checks but send this other amount." It filters down, it takes time, it takes approvals from lots of quarters. You do not want an elected official coming up with some goofball theory that no taxes need collecting and instead just invest in coal mines which he is convinced will have a huge comeback. And this can't happen because their are LAWS. Th
Most of them won't click the link (Score:3)
Go watch the Netflix special "The Brainwashing of My Dad" for a real world example.
And lots of "He did not say that." (Score:2)
Followed by Trump admitting he said it, but it was a joke.
So then it becomes "It's an ingenious troll of the left," 3D chess, etc.
Stragglers scramble to catch up before they're attacked for spreading fake news that was gospel truth the day before. Even governors aren't immune. [cnn.com] They all must keep up with an ever-shifting master narrative or risk being thrown under the bus. It sounds annoying, but it's probably easier than thinking. I'm sure their thoughts are unsettling.
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Seriously, how do people still manage to go around defending this indefensible clusterf**k of an administration?
Simple: They have defended it so much in the past, they are now firmly part of the evil. They just cannot admit that to themselves. Hence they continue to defend their bad choice, no matter what, probably in some vain hope that it will not turn out so bad in the end. From what I see it is getting even worse though.
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Seriously, how do people still manage to go around defending this indefensible clusterf**k of an administration? And accuse anyone making even the slightest critique as carriers of TDS.
The answer to both of these is: because it's once again fake news. It's yet another made-up story.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/04/23/no-trump-did-not-put-a-labradoodle-breeder-in-charge-of-covid-19-response/
He’s served three administrations in high level posts at HHS, the White House and the Pentagon.
He was never in charge of pandemic containment strategy.
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Trump Phd knows lots about it (Score:2)
https://i.imgur.com/7SI9zN1.jp... [imgur.com]
"Heck of a job, Brownie" award (Score:2)
Well, now we know who the Republicans are going to throw under the bus.
Congratulations Brian Harrison on your "Heck of a job, Brownie" award.
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So you think that's the one who's gonna be fired from The Administration game show this week?
Say, I think they should start adding some sort of phone-in viewer participation game.
Dogs can sniff out infectious diseases (Score:3)
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Aren't you afraid that having Milk-bones on you will skew the dog's response and give you a false reading?
One joke among many (Score:5, Funny)
He was hired because he said he had done lab work!
(Not my joke, but I posted it here so I will take responsibility--unlike some people.
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It kinda reminds me of the story how Che Guevara became finance minister of Cuba.
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No, allegedly Fidel asked whether anyone in his group was an economist. Che was completely worn out and tired, listened with half an ear and heard whether anyone here is a communist, and he jumped up and yelled "SI!"
And that's how he got the job, despite not having any clue about money.
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Man who used to poop his pants all day appointed (Score:2)
For several years, he wasn't even allowed to cross the street, and for more than a decade he was repeatedly subject to administrative actions for violating rules at organizations where he worked. These are the kinds of people this administration puts in high office!
Read this article (Score:2)
By all accounts of those who’ve worked with him, Harrison is a serious public servant with deep experience. And he was never in charge of pandemic containment strategy.
He was, rather, assigned a typical role for a cabinet secretary’s chief of staff, serving as aide de camp on a task force run by the boss himself — until Trump stripped that job from Azar and assigned the responsibility to Vice President Mike Pence.
— https://www.dallasnews.com/new... [dallasnews.com]
Consider the writers and their sources (Score:2)
"Five sources say some officials" ooo wow so this is fact?
Just my 2 cents
It makes good headlines, but it's misleading. (Score:2)
Yes, Brian Harrison was a dog breeder. But he did have a few low level government jobs in the Bush Adminstiration; his other private sector experience was a few years in public relations.
I think it's reasonable to say he doesn't have enough experience to be entrusted with such a complex and critical job, but it's not as if they picked someone whose *only* experience was running a dog breeding operation.
Neither the CDC nor the FDA screwed up the test (Score:5, Informative)
As best I can tell, the contractor who was mass producing the reagents had a problem during production. And genetics is hard - there are going to be problems now and then, so unless more information has come out since I last looked into this, I don't know that it really makes sense to blame the contractor either.
The real problem with the testing is that our FDA regulations had created a monoculture in testing. We have many genetics labs capable of making PCR tests, and several did. But only the CDC lab was familiar with the process for getting approval, and similarly the FDA approvulators were only familiar with the way one lab worked - the CDC lab.
This problem has been lurking since the system was created in 2005. Like a microscopic crack in a jet engine turbine blade, the system works until it doesn't, allowing the flaw to escape attention and repair. And then one day, the engine disassembles itself and President Trump and his delegates have to step in to get the FDA career staff working with other labs.
So, not-news for not-nerds, stuff that doesn't matter at all. But keep trying to gaslight guys.
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And genetics is hard - there are going to be problems now and then
It's not that hard to not contaminate your test with the virus you are testing for. Especially since the virus isn't actually in the test (it's antisense RNA is).
We have many genetics labs capable of making PCR tests, and several did. But only the CDC lab was familiar with the process for getting approval
No. All of those labs routinely get FDA approval for their tests and other products. That's a big part of their regular business. If they didn't know how to navigate the FDA, they'd have gone out of business long ago.
This was a CDC fuck-up, by giving it to a contractor that fucked up.
The national media is going insane (Score:3, Informative)
Headline: No, Trump did not put a Labradoodle breeder in charge of COVID-19 response
WASHINGTON — No, the Trump administration did not put a professional dog breeder from Dallas in charge of COVID-19 response.
Yes, the chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services briefly owned a family business raising Labradoodles. But he’s also served three administrations in high level posts at HHS, the White House and the Pentagon.
Colleagues who hired Brian Harrison and served with him in government were appalled to see him disparaged Thursday as a mere “dog breeder,” as if Joe Exotic had catapulted from tiger king to head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“This is so silly. He went home and worked in a family business,” said Jack Kalavritinos, who served with Harrison at HHS during the administrations of both George W. Bush and President Donald Trump, most recently as director for intergovernmental and external affairs, working on the opioid crisis and drug prices.
“Brian was a no-brainer pick,” said another colleague, Michael Reilly, who hired Harrison for his first job at HHS under Bush. “His private sector experience is irrelevant .... He was a complete known commodity who had extensive experience.”
Re:The national media is going insane (Score:4, Insightful)
You left out the bit of having absolutely no medical training, no medical qualification, no management qualification, and never being remotely in charge of disaster management in any capacity in the past.
The labradoodle thing is a misdirect. This friend of the family is a horrible choice for the office in many ways including ways which count.
Dunno what the fuss is about (Score:2)
Positions within the current administration are some of the shortest lived / staffed positions in history.
In all likelihood, he'll either resign or be fired in a month or two when the infection rates don't drop as
fast as they hope and they need a designated scape-goat to blame.
Seriously, think about it.
If you were the absolute expert in your field and you were asked by what I like to refer to as " The
Revolving Door Administration ", would you agree to a job offer ? Knowing you're going to simply
be a targ
The Left is ignoring his long government service (Score:2)
It seems the left is ignoring his long service within the government leading departments including within HHS. In earlier days he was ALSO an amateur dog breeder. I guess people who are on Trump's team are not allowed to have hobbies? Perhaps before going ballistic with criticism you owe it to yourself to learn more of the facts surrounding this long time public servant. But that would require being honest with yourselves which always hurts, which ever side of the fence you are on.
{^_^}
Trump Was Told Position Needed a Lab Expert (Score:2)
And there you go! A lab expert!
What about tampons? (Score:1, Interesting)
Tampons??? Are you bleeding out your eyes... or whatever?
Did it hoit yow lil butthole that Trump is incompetent and stupid, and the people he put in office are incompetent and stupid, and the people they put in office are even more incompetent and even more stupid?
Go take your MAGA self somewhere anyone cares - it's not the United States. Not even the south. Don't say no more - you are already stupid for what you said above.
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Well.....I can certainly imagine some dog breeders could do a good job. This one didn't. And the reason they should have been expected to isn't obvious to me.
Now one dog breeder I know is a retired doctor, and could be expected to have a handle on what needed to be done, being both a doctor and a manager. It might not have worked, as I suspect that subordinates were hiding problems from their managers, but she'd have a reasonable chance. Why was this one a good choice?
In other words, being a dog breeder
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Well, the guy who mismanaged the American Quarter Horse Association almost into bankruptcy made a great FEMA manager, didn't he? The President even said on national television, "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie!"
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You are out of your fucking mind and quite insane as all of the Trump cult followers seem to be. When he orders you to drink the kool-aid, drink deep.
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You do understand, I hope, that the popular vote (ie, the people) doesn't elect a president of the USA?
Trump could get 99% of the popular vote and still lose.
It's the electoral college that elects the president.
And I've never even BEEN to the USA...
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You do understand, I hope, that the popular vote (ie, the people) doesn't elect a president of the USA? Trump could get 99% of the popular vote and still lose. It's the electoral college that elects the president.
And I've never even BEEN to the USA...
Nah, beg to differ... it's not that bad. Most states electors are bound by their state's popular vote totals, at least on the 1st ballot.
While it would be difficult to unseat an incumbent President in a good economy, unseating a competent President in a time of national emergency has also proven unlikely. FDR, GW Bush, Nixon, Washington, Lincoln... the only thing conservatives have to fear is the competency, or lack thereof, the current administration.
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You also need to mention if they do decide to not vote for the person who got the popular vote some are fined for doing so.
When some celebrities said they were willing to pay for these fines the Republicans had a fit. They said this was paramount to bribery.
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Except they weren't buying the vote. They were willing to pay the fine if people were willing to vote their conscience.
On the other side of the coin, some of these electors were harassed by members of the Republican party if they did change their vote.
Some even received threats of imprisonment or even death.
Funny how the Republicans never considered these to be illegal.
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No. Most electors at the electoral college are bound to vote for the candidate selected by the voters on the first ballot. Only if there is a tie do the negotiations start. (Yeah, I know they aren't all so bound, but you said 99%.)
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Nah, it's not quite 99%, but your in the right ballpark. Say that if you win half of seats then you win, then recall you only need to win half of the votes in each seat to win the seat, so you can win with only 25%+ support. So, 75% of people could vote against Trump and he'd still win, as long as the people who did vote for him were distributed properly.
However ... that 75/25 thing is only true if every state's votes are weighted the same. Since the EC's votes are biased to small states, if you got 50.1% o
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They simply don't understand the Constitution
"When somebody is president of the United States the authority is total. " "The federal government has absolute power." ~Donald J. Trump
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Sounds like Trump changed parties.
Both parties routinely piss all over the constitution.
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Well 334 electoral votes sounds like a lot. Doesn't it.
You didn't mention the vote of the people... what we call the popular vote... where one man one vote determines who will be President.
There is only one vote that matters - the electoral vote. How quaint you think the "popular" vote matters. Perhaps you need to go re-read the Constitution and understand how Presidents are elected?
Go ahead and bookmark this, if you can figure that out, because come November you can come back say "I sowwwy."
Likewise! When he's re-elected, you'll also say you're sorry? Or will you simply stamp your feet and throw a tantrum like his first election?
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The only one throwing tantrums is Trump.
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The only one throwing tantrums is Trump.
That's simply not true. Certainly Trump throws tantrums, but saying "only" is so obviously false that you either have crippling tunnel vision or you are being deliberately obtuse.
You might just as well say "only Trump talking to the press". He's certainly using the crisis to make the most of the press coverage, but to claim he's the only one doing so is not even remotely accurate.
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When he's reelected we'll all eventually be sorry, except for the billionaires. That's his true constituency.
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Re:Former dog owner? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, if you run an administration like your former The Apprentice show and fire one of them per week, mostly at random, do you expect competent candidates for your game show?
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There is a difference between exchanging people who don't perform and a casting show like behaviour where you kick out one every week. If you have more turnover than the five administrations before combined [time.com] (and we're only talking first terms, because it's a given that a second time around you already know the people who work for you better and won't have as high a turnover), it means that you have no manager qualification and cannot pick the right people for the right job.
And if there was ONE quality I exp
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Yeah you can. The Bush era had a couple of real doozies.
1) Jeff Gannon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] A literal fake journalist, writing for a fake journal, he was the star reporter at the Bush Whitehouse, very pro-Bush (giving planted friendly questions whenever Bush was in trouble) had special security clearances meaning he didn't need to apply for the normal press passes etc, despite only doing a *2-day* journalism course at a conservative boot camp. In the end it turned out he was a gay escort calle
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2) North Star Consulting. When Bush invaded Iraq, they unfroze Iraqi assets to use in rebuilding Iraq. There was meant to be auditing. So you'd assume you get an ... auditing firm. Or at least get some accountants, right? No, they did a no-contract tender for some company called North Star Consultants, which operated out of a suburban home in San Diego and did kitchen renovation. North Star Consultants then paid some kids to do the books for the entirety of the Iraq reconstruction mission, using only an *Ex
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Did you even read the summary, not to mention the article? They are not talking about Azar, they are talking about the person Azar appointed to lead the pandemic task force, Brian Harrison. But you see "bias" in any story that is critical of Trump, so don't let facts get in the way of your rant.
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From wikipedia:
Harrison studied economics at Texas A&M University and worked in the Department of Health and Human Services during the Presidency of George W. Bush. He has also held positions at other federal agencies including in the Social Security Administration, in the United States Department of Defense, and in the Office of the Vice-President. After leaving government service he was employed as director of the healthcare practice for DCI Group. [wikipedia]
Which the article buried in a single sentence in the middle of the article:
He also had posts working for Vice President Dick Cheney, the Department of Defense and a Washington public relations company.
What they chose to focus the headline and a good portion of the article on instead:
He later opened a labradoodle-breeding business. [wikipedia]
He may be as dumb as bricks, but they didn't hire him because he was a dog breeder. This is just as disingenuous as saying Democrats appointed a bartender to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (AOC). Obviously her job as bartender is not why she's there.
The GP will probably only see "Harrison is a dog breeder" as wr
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What, specifically, isn't factural? (Score:2, Insightful)
Or did we all just forget that Bush Jr's Katrina response was a disaster because he put cronies in charge.
People, we have got to stop putting people who don't believe in gov't in charge of government. Contrary to what you would like to believe we need government. We REALLY need to start ordering companies to produce Test Kits and PPE or we're going to lose anywhere from 1 to 7 million people and collapse our economy and healthcare system. We need somebody to coordinate response between th
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Fuck yeah I would! (Score:2)
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That's a lovely strawman (Score:3)
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You are ignoring that he experiences as a high ranking HHS management.
Stuff that Matters (Score:2, Insightful)
The only Derangement Syndrome here are people who continue to Support a man who tells doctors to look into bleach injects when he knows and should know his impressionable followers _will_ do that, who set guidelines telling GA not to reopen and then praised the governor for reopening, who...
you know what, fuck this, I can't even bother listing out more absolutely insane thin
Re: Stuff that Matters (Score:2)
I'm stunned no one else called you out on that complete lying BULLSHIT before I got here.
Scumbag was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths for sure and likely many more. Funds terrorist orgs outside Iran. Heads Iranian terrorism division. In Iraq to stir up more trouble.
Gets whacked on a run way no where near any civilians and instantly killed along with 6 other lesser scumbags on his team. World response? Sigh of relief. Iranian respo
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Killed a beloved Iranian general on a peace mission? You mean Soleimani, the guy responsible for thousands of terror based murders throughout the world?
The guy who explicitly targeted civilians during a career that lasted decades and trained terrorists all over the world? The guy responsible for far more murders then Bin Laden? The one who destabilized the Middle East for decades and had no problems with killing gays for being gay or raping women for being women? You are truly deranged. Seriously, please ge
Yes, his people loved him (Score:2)
Point is, doesn't matter if a general's a murderer and war criminal. People still love him.
Oh, and I'm not a big fan of Islam or fundamentalist religion in general.
Once again, seriously, I get that you're having fun being a troll, but you're gonna die. Horribly. Do you have any
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Find that psychiatrist, get help, your delusional and paranoid. Please get professional help for your own mental welfare. I certainly hope you do so if you have a family at home. Sorry, I cannot debate someone that is deranged and delusional.
Re: How about we rename Slashdot? (Score:2)
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Regarding "TDS", the only people delusional about Trump are those who think that he has the competence to run anything more consequential than a hot dog stand.
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TDS: an affliction wherein a person can listen to Trump and not get physically ill.
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The multiple times a day anti-Trump articles remind one of CNN. How about limiting the TDS articles to one per day, is that okay? News for nerds, things that matter - does that ring a bell?
If I want a constant slew of TDS I can turn to any number of other sites for that. This is supposed to be a site ostensibly about technology and geek types things, not politics. Lately Slashdot has been about overloaded with politics with a side of technology and nary anything at all geek related.
Seriously you're bitching about politics while invoking politics? (e.g. TDS, CNN) I would at least understand if you simply said you're tired of political bullshit yet you've elected to undermine your own message by adding to it.
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Reuters:
the 37-year-old aide has "no formal education in public health, management, or medicine."
If you think this is the best possible choice for the position you're delusional. Why is it so hard for you to admit this is an awful pick? Do you think the Trump administration has never made a mistake? Really think about that for a minute. Do you think it's possible for any administration to not make mistakes?
Re:Former patent clerk (Score:5, Informative)
Einstein worked as a patent clerk ... and then studied theoretical physics.
Actually, Einstein had passed his examination to graduate from the FIT (physics and mathematics) in 1900, but due to the opposition of one of his professors he was unable to go on to obtain the usual university assistantship. After gaining Swiss citizenship, he obtained a position in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland in 1902. While working at the patent office he completed his thesis and got his PhD in 1905---while he was still a patent clerk.
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Labradoodle guy is going straight from Labradoodles to a post he's wholly unqualified for.
Hmm... and we have an unqualified Goldendoodle [wikipedia.org] in the Whitehouse, so I'm not seeing the problem here. Seems this Administration is doodles all the way down [wikipedia.org].
[My step-sister has two wonderful, adorable, clever Goldendoodles, and I offer my sincere apologies to her dogs for this analogy.]
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Do you think the Trump administration has never made a mistake?
Yes. To think otherwise is to have Trump Derangement Syndrome according to republican medical experts on Slashdot.
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Remind me please. "Community Organizer" qualifies to be the US president.
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Why do so many Trump supporters think this is a valid defense of Trump? Do you imagine that everyone who criticizes Trump or his policies was a die-hard Obama supporter?
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Yeah, because thats all he did... /s
Or you know, going to Harvard Law School, being president of Harvard Law Review, constitutional law professor at University of Chicago Law School for 12 years, civil rights attorney, Illinois state senator, US senator... None of those would be qualifications for being president I guess.
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Einstein took that job while he was working on this PhD thesis. I've known many people in that position. You do what it takes to pay the bills until you can secure an academic position.
It's not like Einstein was somehow self-taught in his field. That would be Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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Well, I would be more impressed if Srinivasa Ramanujan had bred dogs. Anyone can invent math.
Look into that patent clerk's background (Score:2, Insightful)
Not exactly a good comparison, and the results bare that out.
Re:Former patent clerk (Score:5, Funny)
Trump: "This makes no sense to me. We have enough Generals. They're great Generals. They know how to blow things up. Very good at doing that. Lots of medals. Well deserved. We really don't need any more Generals giving theories. Theories are good. I use theories all the time. But they're just like rumors. I use rumors a lot. But they're well substantiated rumors. That's what we need more of."
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Einstein never bred dogs.
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Sounds pretty good actually. All the trolling and none of the pretentious political crap?