Comment by isthatafact

Even if we take the generous view that the science director is a poet who does not understand science enough to speak coherently about it (and hence the weird poetry containing misleading technical phrases), the situation is not normal.

With a non-scientist as science director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Science Advisor to the President, and the drastic cuts to science and research pushed by the white house, it seems likely that malice is involved.