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Rush Holt

Rush Holt

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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a dark field of space filled with thousands of distant galaxies.
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This election is said to have been about rejecting the political establishment. We cannot let that mean rejecting established facts.

We hope that President Trump will be more grounded in specific facts than was candidate Trump and pay more attention to the process of careful, open vetting of hypotheses and claims.

–Rush Holt, published online 17 November 2016; 10.1126/science.aal4180