Saturday, February 04, 2006

Junk Science

Now I'm not saying a punk-ass 24 year old kid can't have a brain, but to have that kid ordering NASA scientists on what they can put in a report or not put in a report is completely bonkers. This is the result of two stolen elections. We are, as anyone with a pulse knows, in real trouble.

"The Big Bang memo came from Mr. Deutsch, a 24-year-old presidential appointee in the press office at NASA headquarters whose r�sum�says he was an intern in the 'war room' of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. A 2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M, he was also the public-affairs officer who sought more control over Dr. Hansen's public statements.

In October 2005, Mr. Deutsch sent an e-mail message to Flint Wild, a NASA contractor working on a set of Web presentations about Einstein for middle-school students. The message said the word 'theory' needed to be added after every mention of the Big Bang.

The Big Bang is 'not proven fact; it is opinion,' Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, 'It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.'

It continued: 'This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue. And I would hate to think that young people would only be getting one-half of this debate from NASA. That would mean we had failed to properly educate the very people who rely on us for factual information the most."


Emphasis added. Via Atrios.

1 comment:

Scott said...

Another out and out political officer. Tell me, who won the cold war?

It reeks of the Boeing acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, which somehow put the MD executives in charge of Boeing, ushering in the very same scandalous behavior which brought down MD. Did we as a country, like Boeing, win the battle, to find we actually lost everything else?