Score one for the side of truth, ethics and science.
Apparently, GWB’s politically appointed toady, George C. Deutsch, has resigned according to this article over at New York Times. While NASA won’t disclose the reasons for his resignation, the fact that George (Deutsch, not Bush) lied about graduating from Texas A & M University has recently come to light.
Douche Deutsch was the primary person responsible for trying to muzzle Jim Hansen, NASA’s top climate scientist, as reported in this Boston.com article. He was also responsible for trying to introduce “Ideological Intelligent Design” into the NASA literature and have them refer to the Big Bang as a theory.
As the Scientific Activist post above notes, Deutsch’s primary qualification was having been a worker on GWB’s presidential campaign. The 24-year-old Deutsch has no scientific background or experience, and little journalistic experience to speak of. I agree with the conclusion drawn by the Scientific Activist and have quoted it below.
The Bush administration and the Republican Party can give lip service to science all they like, but when they show such a flagrant disregard for scientific integrity by placing someone, whose only qualification is having worked on the Bush campaign, in such an important position, everything else they say is meaningless.
This was another flagrant attempt by the Bush regime to silence the truth and muzzle opponents to their oil-industry driven agenda. GWB and his administration have repeatedly proven themselves to believe they are “above the law” and shown that they have no regard for the truth, ethical behavior, or rule of law.