First uncovered by the Scientific Activist. Confirmed by the Inquirer, Truthdig, and the Moderate Voice.
George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters’ access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word “theory” at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.
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 think what’s going on here is a complete ignorance about the internet. It’s impossible nowadays for a controversial figure to lie about something that is easily verifiable and get away with it. Even if the press won’t do its job, which it didn’t do here, some blogger always will.
Cronyism used to be an acceptable part of American machine politics for decades. Neither of the Establishment parties had a corner on the sleaze.
It seems to be that the more reactionary and arrogant types — presently in charge — simply haven’t noticed that communications and standards have improved inside a small but significant portion of the population.
First the guy should be fired for lying on his App. but that also doesn’t make him wrong. Limiting reporters’ access to a top climate scientist is not in itself a bad thing. By this I mean the scientist shouldn’t be able to use the NASA name without NASA’s approval. Adding the word “theory” at every mention of the Big Bang is not wrong since it is a theory with some holes in it. They can’t account for large summons of mass stopping the Universe from expanding faster then it is given the known mass they see. The whole Dark Matter theory.
I mentioned in another blog entry that the world today needs a new paradigm. The old paradigm about economy as superiority and the leader in the world of ideas is now being challenged by TRUTH. Google is at the vanguard of this new movement.
The Truth will set you free. And we are starting to see it.
The bomb that will propel the Truth is when the truth about 9/11 comes out. IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
You talk about truth then spin the lunatic conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an inside job. I bet you don’t even know how damaging that is to the cause, do you?
Shut up. You’re not helping anyone when you talk nonsense.
jetfire — it really is amazing that you can be wrong like 4 sentences out of 6. Factually, logically, ethically. They should have given you the job.
Gary Larson for president! Far Side rocks!
Dang, it bugs me when the morality people turn out to be liars.
malren and steve,
only one thing about 9/11 disproves the official story.
Science does not lie. It is the highest form of truth in the material world. The Law of Gravity ALWAYS works.
The FACT that the Twin Towers fell at near FREEFALL is PROOF that the “pancake theory” of floors toppling over the next is FALSE. If that theory were correct then the towers should have taken about 45 seconds to fall accounting for the fraction of resistance from EACH floor. The towers FELL WITHOUT RESISTANCE. That is IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS the fall was a CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.
Ask any university professor with knowledge of elementary physics. Dude, you cannot believe it because you are EMOTIONALLY not prepared to accept that your own government will kill 3000 of their own citizens in order to advance their agenda. You cannot believe because you don’t have access to your own mind. YOUR MIND HAS BEEN HIJACKED.
LOOK AT THE FACTS. Think about it! Can you manuever a 747 after taking a few lessons? ASK A PROFESSIONAL AIRLINE PILOT (one that YOU know and trust not pilots that you don’t know and go on television to say that it was possible).
There are so many lies about 9/11 that there are numerous sites extolling them. Do a google search of “9/11 truth”…
9/11 was so BRAZEN. The lies are obvious once you search and believe your own intelligence. The mind works at 4 levels in increasing awareness: impulse, emotions, intellect, intuition. In order to SEE the truth about 9/11 you have to be working at intellect or higher. BUT you cannot get there because you are stuck at the level of EMOTION.
Be BRAVE. SEEK THE TRUTH. You are a child. With a child’s mind. That is okay if the masters were in for your benefit. THEY ARE NOT. You are their slaves. Wake up. Become a man. You are not a man. You are a boy. They want to keep you at the child level because children believe whatever they are told. You believe the TV. You believe the official story. Grow up. Stop believing what you hear on TV. Watch TV without the volume. See the images but decide for yourself. The ONLY thing you know for sure is that two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. Spin your own story according to physical proof and not on words you heard.
The truth is there. Don’t be afraid. I know it is scary to believe the truth. Stop being scared. Group up with your buddies. No one is going to harm you. But find out the truth by debunking the lies about 9/11. You cannot DEFY PHYSICAL LAWS.
Thank god for grassroots media like blogs, podcasts, and vidcasts!! I think it’s incredibly ridiculous that this wasn’t (or barely) mentioned by the major press! Unfortunately, we live in a world of lopsided journalism.
Steve, you’re still following the script you have been programmed to believe.
Can you maneuver a 747 into the Pentagon without touching the lawn? Why won’t the government release the films that caught the “747” plane crashing into it? Maybe because it wasn’t a 747?
“Maybe because” does not trump a “what if”.
David
There was no 747. The two that crashed into the WTC were a 757 and a767. It was also a 757 that crashed into the Pentagon. I believe it was a 737 that crashed in Pennsylvania, but not sure.
It has been shown time and time again that the buildings fell because of the way they were constructed.
There were no demolitions. If there had of been then there would be holes in the walls throughout the buildings.
Now if you want to talk about conspiracies…
My neighbor keeps beaming his microwave at my house. I can tell because my coffee stays warm for a long time. It doesn’t affect me because I wear a metal colander over my head to keep out the microwaves. (I prefer that to tinfoil because the colander lets the air out.) I think he is doing it because he doesn’t like my dog shitting on his lawn. Well, if he wants to shoot me with microwaves then Rudy, the dog, can piss and shit on his lawn all day. And twice on Sunday. The Police help him because I see them there quite often, both looking at my house. Sometimes the Police come to my door, but I pretend I’m not home. The Police cars have these big antennas on the back. I think they want to shoot me with their own radio waves.
What do you think. Are they after me?
>stuck at the level of EMOTION.
Lots of self reference in that post.
Pat, no external weapon is necessary. You are sleeping with the enemy.
Her name is TV.
Don’t be too hard on the media… there is just so much crap happening by and around Bush and the GOP that is is really impossible to cover it all.
Jetfire: Adding the word “theory” whenever NASA mentions the Big Bang is wrong because it is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public. A scientific theory has much more significance than what the normal usage of the word “theory” suggests. They are taking advantage of the public’s misconception of what a scientific theory is to discredit the Big Bang. Proponents of Intelligent Design (IDiots?) have attacked the “theory” of evolution in the exact same manner.
Eideard,
How am I wrong? The limiting access to scientist part? My point there is that NASA is trying to speak with on voice and having some saying something else screws that up. Should the scientist be able speak is mind freely yes but as his personal opinion and research and not NASA. Should NASA suppress DATA no. Can the hold things up until more info is in yes.
natefrog,
How is adding theory hurting any thing when it really is a theory? “They are taking advantage of the public’s misconception of what a scientific theory is to discredit the Big Bang.” This actually proves my point since you making out that it is more fact then it is. The scientist community is getting as bad as the Church was in the medieval times. Ask the people who first propose String Theory. The can’t get the Big Bang to total work out because of the whole Dark Matter part they have to though in to make their models work. Heck they keep changing how the moon was formed. First is was a large asteroid and now it was a sister planet that collided. Check this out http://www.physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/2/4/1 “Theorists claim dark energy does not exist”
Here a quote from the end of the article
“The good news is that Einstein’s theory of general relativity remains intact: “All the tests that Einstein’s theory has passed to date are still valid because they were performed at shorter distances,” adds Santiago.”
They don’t have any problem calling it “Einstein’s theory” for the Theory of Relativity.
Do a Google search on Big Bang and almost all the first page have Theory after it.
Check out the Berekley’s Big Bang Cosmology Primer web page http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/IUP/Big_Bang_Primer.html
Even they call it a Theory
You’re right, let’s talk on the level of truthiness and play to the publics’ lack of intelligence.
Keep trying libs, keep trying.
Speaking of hijacks, this thread got hijacked by the tinfoil hat crowd.
To stray off topic and raise a point about the actual news item here:
Why is this guy desribed as a Presidential appointee? He’s not the head of NASA or anything. Looking over the article it looks like Deutsch is pretty low-level. Does the president appoint every janitor who works at NASA? Just curious, maybe I’m misunderestimating something.
As to “limiting free speech” of this scientist or whatever, jetfire has a good point. Someone representing the government in his official capacity does NOT have free speech protection: the 1st amendment protects people from government power; it does NOT protect the government from itself.
(This is most critically true with the military. Soldiers and Sailors in uniform emphatically do NOT have 1st amendment protection; though in their civilian clothes on their own time, they do. If this seems unjust to you, then just imagine a heavily armed battalion of angry marines going to your local town hall meeting, boosting the local neo-Nazi candidate and shouting down everyone else. Now that wouldn’t be a good thing, would it.)
The “Federal Government” itself is not an entity that has free speech rights. Now there is a kind of fine-line/judgement call issue — at what point do you cease being a protected individual and become “the goverment”?
But my point is that an issue like this is certainly not clear cut like one might at first think. Naturally people get all exorcised about a case like this when they agree with the “victim” — yet somehow have little sympathy for people espousing the opposite point of view.
Finally — yes the Big Bang is certainly just a theory. A pretty good one, but still just a theory, and always will be, and any credible scientist would surely agree to that. No one here is more of a Big Bang fan than I. But it is, by definition, a theory, in precisely the way that scientists use the word theory. So for someone to insist it be called a theory at every occurance is a bit annoying editorially, but it’s hardly a national scandal.
Jetfire,
Good point, I’m almost convinced. After we attach “Theory” to most scientific works, we can attach the word “Myth” or “Superstition” to any religious belief. So when the fundys start telling me about the true meaning of Christmas I can insist that they attach Myth to it. When the fundys tell me about Christ dying for our sins, they will need to attach Superstition to it.
So it is the Myth of the baby Jesus being born on December 25. And the Superstition that He was dead but rose three days later in order that we might all have entrance to heaven. Now is the Pope’s being the only person on earth able to interpret God’s will a myth or superstition?
Jetfire,
The hurt comes from people substituting the vernacular definition of theory (ie, a wild-ass guess) for the scientific one (keep in mind that gravity is a theory).
I’m sure you can imagine how this misunderstanding might be taken advantage of by one or more people to discredit certain ways of thinking that they may not agree with.
Babaganoosh
I think gravity is just a myth. Can you prove that God just doesn’t want his ball back after you throw it up in the air?
If the man lied on his resume, then fire him. He lied to get the job, he has no honest credibility.
I’m always AMAZED at how taking any paragraph and capitalizing words instantly makes it MORE TRUE. It works very well with religious pamphlets when they want to tell you about EVIL and WRONG and SIN and FLUFFERNUTTERS. I mean, I can just make stuff up, and it seems TRUE because I CAPITALIZED it. Watch. You ARE all made of CHEESE. The Cheese gives you STRENGTH and LIFE. Oh, yeah, then I am supposed to explain how you just don’t have the ABILITY to COMPREHEND how WONDERFUL cheese really is. Once you think on a HIGHER LEVEL you will be able to see that it is VERY CLEAR we are all CHEESE. If you find that you are capitalizing entire words more than once or twice here and there, go talk to your DOCTOR about upping your MEDS, schitzo.