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Posted at 5:33 pm on Monday, February 6, 2006, in Uncategorized, and tagged bush.

Now this piece of news is a perfect example of the contempt the current administration has towards science…

George Deutsch, a twenty-four year old Bush appointee in the press office of NASA, who had spent his time “in the ‘war room’ of the 2004 Bush-Cheney reelection” team, and is “a 2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M,” emailed a NASA contractor that the Big Bang is “not proven fact; it is opinion. 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. 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.“

The Times, as we hope they would do, investigated further: “Repeated queries were made to the White House about how a young presidential appointee with no science background came to be supervising Web presentations on cosmology and interview requests to senior NASA scientists. The only response came from Donald Tighe of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. ‘Science is respected and protected and highly valued by the administration,’ he said.“

Highly-valued… [Cough.] Kyoto. [Cough.] Sure it is.

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