Here, have some insight-by-proxy: Jeff's fulminating against the administration's ideologically loaded appointments to scientific advisory boards -- and the WaPo's milquetoast excusal of this behavior. Go have a look.

It's true that Jeff has lived in Berkeley for the past few years. He's biased -- by this point has probably secretly begun to have opinions about things like organic gardening, if the condition is progressing at a typical pace. But he's also a scientist, studying cell membranes or synapses or some other such nonsense that'll eventually get him burned as a witch.