The NASA Fiasco?Both Points of View
Recently George Deutsch, a Bush appointee to NASA, was forced to resign when he tried to censor their top climatologist James Hansen, who disagrees with the official White House line that global warming is not a problem. Now you can read both sides and make up your own mind.
Andrew Gumbel writes in the Independent that Deutsch, who once worked on Bush’s re-election campaign, appears to be a FEMA-like appointee, who put into public relations at NASA as a way to keep the scientists there in line on official government issues such as global warming and creationism versus evolution. He has been accused of keeping the media away from Hansen, who has called for reductions in greenhouse gases.
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