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NASA Loses Another Rich Anderson Hero
John Steinberg quoted:
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. Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted. Georgie, you're doing a heck of a job! ... The resignation came as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was preparing to review its policies for communicating science to the public. ...many agency scientists and midlevel public affairs officials described to The New York Times instances in which they said political pressure was applied to limit or flavor discussions of topics uncomfortable to the Bush administration, particularly global warming. "As we have stated in the past, NASA is in the process of revising our public affairs policies across the agency to ensure our commitment to open and full communications," the statement from Mr. Acosta said. Mr. Acosta may be dreaming. Dubya faces a real conundrum here. Scientists are supposed to discover truths, but Dubya can't permit the spread of truth, as truth contradicts everything he stands for. How to allow scientists to find their irksome little truths, but ensure that they keep them to themselves? Dubya said he wants "to give our nation's children a firm grounding in math and science," but he has to do it in a way that will prevent them from disseminating, and preferably even learning, truths about the World. My guess is that Dubya wants to fund a huge school of mathematics and science at Bob "God is the author of racial segregation" Jones University. Davoud -- usenet *at* davidillig dawt com |
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NASA Loses Another Rich Anderson Hero
Davoud wrote:
Dubya said he wants "to give our nation's children a firm grounding in math and science," but he has to do it in a way that will prevent them from disseminating, and preferably even learning, truths about the World. You may have misheard him. I thought he said "myth and science" |
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