‘Queer agender’ feminist physicist still cheesed at ‘homophobic’ NASA telescope

The College Fix ^ | 07/16/2022 | Dave Huber

[millenial4freedom]

As NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope is sending back its first remarkable images of our universe, “queer agender” feminist physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein wants you to know she remains miffed at the telescope’s moniker.

Late last year, the University of New Hampshire professor and three other scientists demanded NASA ditch Webb’s name from the project due to his alleged homophobia.

Prior to Webb’s appointment as head of NASA in 1961, he allegedly played a role in the so-called “Lavender Scare” as a State Department official. In response to a petition started by Prescod-Weinstein et. al., NASA investigated the issue last summer but concluded there was “no evidence at this point that warrants changing the name of the [telescope].”

In a recent Twitter thread, Prescod-Weinstein said a Freedom of Information Act request shows that a NASA astronomer was assigned to “impugn” her concerns about the telescope name.

“In December 2021 [astronomer Hakeem] Oluseyi released a blog entry that in my opinion cherry-picks history to argue that JW [James Webb] was being unfairly attacked,” Prescod-Weinstein tweeted. “[I]t argued that JW wasn’t responsible for homophobia that happened on JW’s watch. Arguing that managers aren’t responsible for homophobia that happens on their watch is troubling coming from astronomers because many of us are managers — I manage a research group with three students and a postdoc. We are responsible for what happens!!”

[Viking2002]

Anyone who would wear earrings like that has something a little ‘off’ to begin with, IMO........

[shoff]

So a minority set aside student becomes an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) professor and complains about the naming of someone else work. Why doesn’t she build her own telescope? She can call it the tingler, or the fleshlight or something. Nope it’s so much easier to criticize a producer than actually do the work yourself.

[Red Badger]

Last time I sa a nose like that as on a Proboscis monkey..........

[Red Badger]