To: PatrickHenry
"However, the Office of Special Counsel informed the complainant, Richard Sternberg, that it is
ending the probe into the case because of jurisdictional questions and the Smithsonian's refusal to "voluntarily participate in any additional investigation" into his grievance."
Well now, that will send a message to any other federally employed scientist won't it? The RC of the 16th and 17th century would be proud.
3 posted on
08/17/2005 4:47:36 AM PDT by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: gobucks
Well now, that will send a message to any other federally employed scientist won't it? The RC of the 16th and 17th century would be proud. Well, there is the small matter that the Smithsonian isn't his employer, and therefore can't practice employment discrimination. Just a technicality.
5 posted on
08/17/2005 5:33:52 AM PDT by
Right Wing Professor
(ID: the 'scientific hypothesis' that somebody did something to some gene or other sometime somehow.)
To: gobucks
In addition, Mr. McVay said the initial probe "supports the [Smithsonian's] contention that you are not an employee" and therefore are not covered "under the jurisdictional statutes imposed upon OSC."
8 posted on
08/17/2005 7:08:43 AM PDT by
js1138
(Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
To: gobucks
The RC of the 16th and 17th century would be proud. Pulling out that old half-truth again, eh?
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