NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace 698
belmolis writes "George C. Deutsch, who tried to muzzle top NASA climate scientist James Hansen and ordered NASA web designers to add the word 'theory' to every mention of the Big Bang, has resigned. The New York Times reports
that NASA declines to discuss the reasons for his resignation, but that it came the same day that Texas A&M University, from which Deutsch claimed on his resume to have graduated, revealed that he had attended the university but did not complete his degree."
The New York Times reports it today, but as of yesterday, it was the Times that had unquestioningly passed along the falsehood of Deutsch's graduation, and it was the blog Scientific Activist whose investigation revealed he'd left before graduating to work on the Bush reelection campaign. For more on the 24-year-old political appointee's interesting viewpoints, see World O' Crap; on Monday, we covered the anger over his attempts to squelch science -- something that, sadly, Jim Hansen has gotten used to.
Jim Henson spins in his grave (Score:5, Funny)
Could be a win-win... (Score:5, Funny)
What you people don't understand.... (Score:5, Funny)
Heliocentrism (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Could be a win-win... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"He did a heckuva job!" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good News and Bad News (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good News and Bad News (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, I'm doing fine so far.
Love,
George W.
And to think .... (Score:3, Funny)
Resume (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Big Bang (Score:5, Funny)
Every time a Christian, Muslim or Jew speaks of anything to do with their religion, they must use the phrase "ancient tribal myth" in the same sentence.
My reaction was, ironically enough,... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Please allow me to say: (Score:3, Funny)
During launches.
Re:Theory not a bad order (Score:4, Funny)
The fact here is that some snotnose bush brat is telling scientist that they must explicitly state the obvious as part of a plan to diminish the value of science on impressionable young minds. If something logical and rational were presented factually, the flock might wander. So "theories" are for science, and facts are for the bible!
"Penguins ain't natural, they was chemically man-made like The Incredible Hulk."
"Anthony, how do you know this about the penguins?"
"It's in the Bible."
"It ain't in the Bible."
"It's in the Bible wit' Noah! Noah didn't take no penguins wit' 'em on the ark, so therefore penguins ain't natural. Read your Bible. There's no mention of penguins whatsoever."
"Okay."
-- The State
Re:What you people don't understand.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just one apparatchik -- there are others (Score:2, Funny)
Or . . . the presidency? ;-D
Re:The Big Bang (Score:4, Funny)
Every time a Christian, Muslim or Jew speaks of anything to do with their religion, they must use the phrase "ancient tribal myth" in the same sentence.
And from now on, replace "Jesus" with "Santa Claus for grownups"
Re:Good News and Bad News (Score:5, Funny)
That wouldn't piss anyone off at all.
My theory of gravity (Score:3, Funny)
Here is a brief description of my theory of gravity, which explains some observable phenomena much better than the commonly accepted "law".
First you have to understand that it is not true that things always fall down. What is actually happening is that things fall both down and up, with equal probability. Therefore the sequence of all "falls" in the history of the universe is a random sequence of "ups" and "downs". As every truly random sequence, it contains long strings where frequency of "downs" is much higher than frequency of "ups". We happen to live during one such string, so it appears to us as if things were always falling down. In fact, things still sometimes fall up, however, with very high probability it happens somewhere where nobody can observe it (ocean, deserts, mountains,
My theory of gravity explains many unexplained mysteries. Let's look for example at the extinction of dinosaurs. The explanation is very simple: they fell up!
You see, what happens when an animal started to fall up? It tries to saves itself from flying off into the space, or course, so it grabs onto something, like a tree or a bush or a rock. When the animal is a small mammal or an insect, it will hold on, crawl back to the earth, and survive. But when a giant dinosaur grabs onto a tree, both the dinosaur and the tree will end up in the cold emptiness of space. That also explains why we cannot find any large deposits of dinosaur skeletons from the extinction period. There are not any, most of the skeletons are up there somewhere, floating towards Aplha Centauri.
As you can see, my theory of gravity is at least as good, if not better, as the commonly accepted "law" (which is really just a theory), and I demand that it is included into the science curriculum at our schools.