February 07, 2006
What a Deutsch bag! "George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said."
The article will make you sick(er), but it doesn't tell you anything that you didn't already suspect about this administration and it's penchant for cronyism.
Highlights:
- Appointed by Bush, this PR officer at NASA had to resign after it broke that he didn't actually graduate from Texas A&M like he had said.
- The article links to a very interesting blog that first broke the story.
- This is the same official that recently tried to silence a NASA scientist in his claims that global warming existed. You may have already been following the "Dr. Hansen" (not this Dr. Hanssen) fiasco. If not, the article links to "related" articles detailing the accusations.
- This PR guy also evidently asked web designers to insert "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang. A recent search of mine on NASA's site finds no noticible evidence of this.
This makes me wonder why I haven't just sucked it up, thickened my skin, and just read the copy of Mooney's The Republican War on Science that has been sitting on my shelf since Christmas. Has anyone read this book, yet?
That sucks, and no I haven't read the book yet. Saw the author on the daily show and heard him on one of the podcasts I listen to though.
I too saw that book recently and thought about buying it. I'll be checking out that scientific activist blog though.
I got the impression from an article I read a few days ago that the "big bang theory" thing got a hearty laugh at NASA HQ and then never got changed.
Finally, when's JSK bringing the outrage to this thread?
JSK and her theories...
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"He's only a bit player," Dr. Hansen said of Mr. Deutsch. "The problem is much broader and much deeper and it goes across agencies. That's what I'm really concerned about."
posted by javelina at 10:01AM CST on February 08