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Jorge R. Frank wrote:
(Greg Kuperberg) wrote in
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He did say that too, but when he referred to the report as a "nasty
piece of writing", he was confirming resentment more than he was
quelling it. He's biasing NASA employees against the report before
they even see it.
....
I have a hard time seeing how someone would get that impression from
reading all the press accounts of O'Keefe's speaking tour

I read a representative sample of the press accounts, and since
you are taking a stand on the context, here it is, quoting
from the Orlando Sentinel:

"We're going to get hammered, but we're going to come out
stronger. That has to be our mind-set -- if we take it personally and
are defensive about it, it's going to be really, really difficult
to work with," O'Keefe said. "Our history has always been that we
confront those problems; we confront those challenges."

That is exactly consistent with your summary from memory. And all of
this does support your main contention: O'Keefe wants everyone to comply
with the CAIB report; there is no defiance here. But I also stand by
what I said: He seems geniunely offended by this report, even though
it isn't finished yet, and he is also portraying the report, and not
the shuttle crash, as the "challenge".

Both by this excerpt and your characterization, it comes across as an "eat
your bitter lima beans" speech. But the CAIB report is not intended as
a plate of lima beans. Rather it is meant as an emergency insulin shot,
for a diabetic who has fallen off the regimen.
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