Update: George Deutsch recently announced his resignation. From NASA Watch:<br><br><a href="http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/02/george_deutsch_1.html">http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/02/george_deutsch_1.html</a>
<br><br><p><img src="http://images.spaceref.com/astro/arrow.gif"> <b>Editor's note:</b>
NASA Watch has learned that George Deutsch resigned his position at
NASA today. NASA will not be commenting on this personnel issue.</p><p><a href="http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/02/george_deutsch.html">George Deutsch, Up and Coming PAO Politico</a> (earlier post)</p><p><a href="http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/2006/02/breaking-news-george-deutsch-did-not.html">
George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University</a>, The Scientific Activist</p><p><img src="http://images.spaceref.com/astro/arrow.gif"> <b>Update:</b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics/08nasa.html">
A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA</a>, NY Times</p><p><i>"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."</i></p><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damien Broderick</b> <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/science/04climate.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&th&emc=th">
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/science/04climate.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&th&emc=th</a><br><br>The Big Bang memo came from Mr. Deutsch, a 24-year-old presidential<br>appointee in the press office at NASA headquarters whose résumé says he was
<br>an intern in the "war room" of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. A<br>2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M, he was also the public-affairs<br>officer who sought more control over Dr. Hansen's public statements.
<br><br>In October 2005, Mr. Deutsch sent an e-mail message to Flint Wild, a NASA<br>contractor working on a set of Web presentations about Einstein for<br>middle-school students. The message said the word "theory" needed to be
<br>added after every mention of the Big Bang.<br><br>The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote,<br>adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration<br>such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent
<br>design by a creator."<br><br>It continued: "This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue.<br>And I would hate to think that young people would only be getting one-half<br>of this debate from NASA. That would mean we had failed to properly educate
<br>the very people who rely on us for factual information the most."<br><br>====================<br><br>Well, yes, and I trust that they will henceforth also always refer to the<br>Spherical Earth Theory, since this is more than a science issue, it is a
<br>religious issue: the Bible implies that the world is flat, with four corners.<br><br>Damien Broderick<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">
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