Posted on 02/08/2006 8:33:55 AM PST by MurryMom
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.
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>>>Are they keeping up with your medications ok?<<<
Your vision must be blocked by colon tissue, as you have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
That should say "Presidential". Please forgive misspellings.
Each one is appointed by the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. In the parlance of people who deal with SES (as I have), they're presidential appointees. But I doubt this guy was SES, probably something else, or maybe he wasn't a legal appointee, but just got his job because he helped Bush.
In any case, it's an administration loyalist trying to tell the scientists how to publish scientific information according to ideological lines. Not good.
Right, "Big Bang" is a theory.
Technically, even GS employees are administration appointments, but they usually fall below the radar of politics. But the Senate-confirmed people and SES are done with authority from the White House, so it's assumed you knew someone in order to get the job.
Do you have any facts that support this?
How about his own statement shown in #77? That's his motive.
See #77.
That is a statement of opinion, not a madate of policy. If he did mandate a policy, why didn't he follow it in his own writing.
Geeze! And I thought that was a "yes" or "no" question. ;)
See #291
Another article by Deutsch.
SES are Senior Executive Service. They are appointed at White House level. If you've ever heard of a "GS" government employee, this is the level above that, but below the departmental appointees. They are appointed under the Presidential Personnel Office, the same one responsible for Senate-confirmed appointments (see about appointments by those list pages).
That list appears to be mainly judges, ambassadors, special committee and board members, and senior department positions. The presidentially-appointed SES covers a huge area just under those senior department positions.
Like you added anything to the debate?
> the folks on the other side of the debate do feel it's a valid "theory".
Bah. Leave "feel" to the hippies: "I *feel* that LSD makes me able to access higher levels of consciousness."
>:(
I think the conversation turned to a general discussion on calling it "the Big Bang Theory" because the claim that he "insisted it always be referred to exclusively as..." was an assertion made by The New York Times -- an indisputably biased source with a sorry track record where the truth is concerned -- with the specific intent of making a "Bush appointee" look silly, by extension making the President look silly.
Of course I don't believe people should have to walk around qualifying any discussion on the Big Bang with the word "theory". But, I do believe that schools and other public institutions should refrain from endorsing it, or any other theory on the origins of the universe.
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