Science Fact or Fallacy

It is being reported that the PR director of NASA has been forced to resign for being a Bush hack trying to push the White House agenda via NASA. Just the Facts Ma'am has been replaced by facts of convienance. No such thing as Climate Warming or the Big Bang.

I like this headline Bush man resigns NASA post in scandal though I don't think they quite meant it the way it sounds.

White House accused of censoring Nasa

Row brewing over climate change and creationism

Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 08 Feb 2006

A row is reportedly growing in the US over attempts by the White House to censor scientific information coming from Nasa.

There are signs of increasing tension within the organisation, and one scientist has claimed that he has been told to stop talking about climate change or face "dire consequences".

Another reported case involves a political appointee attempting to get the theory of creationism onto the Nasa website.

In the latter case George Deutsch, a presidential appointee to the Nasa press office whose previous experience involved working for the Bush/Cheney campaign, sent an email questioning Nasa's website in October, which was leaked to the New York Times.

"The Big Bang is not proven fact; it is opinion," Deutsch wrote. "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."

Now the agency's administrator, Dr Michael D. Griffin, has stepped in to settle the row.

"It is not the job of public affairs officers to alter, filter or adjust engineering or scientific material produced by Nasa's technical staff," Dr Griffin wrote in an email to the agency's 19,000 employees

BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University

Through my own investigations I have just discovered that George Deutsch, the Bush political appointee at the heart of administration efforts to censor NASA scientists (most notably to prevent James Hansen from speaking out about global warming), did not actually graduate from Texas A&M University. This should come as a surprise, since the media has implied otherwise, with even The New York Times describing the 24-year-old NASA public affairs officer, as “a 2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M.” Although Deutsch did attend Texas A&M University, where he majored in journalism and was scheduled to graduate in 2003, he left in 2004 without a degree, a revelation that I was tipped off to by one of his former coworkers at A&M's student newspaper The Battalion.

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