His plans for the job are a mystery, but past presidents have used their chief scientific aide in a number of ways.
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Witze, A. Does it matter if Donald Trump has a science adviser?. Nature 540, 327–328 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.21129
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