Colorado eye surgeon sets the record straight on EPA appointment: “I didn’t get my degree out of a Cracker Jack box”
By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
The New York Times ran its verdict last week on Dr. Brian C. Joondeph’s EPA appointment. Just an eye doctor. Kyle Clark said the same thing.
Joondeph is a Colorado retina surgeon and political commentator. Trump’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin tapped him for the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee—CASAC. The Times piece, published March 12, went after his qualifications: no air-pollution peer-reviewed research, not a climate scientist, wrong kind of doctor.
Clark, a Denver television journalist, flagged the appointment on X. He wrote, “Trump administration appoints Dr. Brian Joondeph, eye doctor and longtime Colorado talk radio regular, to the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.”
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