Then again, see post 123.
He resigned immediately the story broke.
Right Wing Professor
I'm really just raising questions as this is NYT after all, but specifically regarding your comment, the article seems to have the exact opposite timeline:
- The resignation came as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was preparing to review its policies for communicating science to the public. The review was ordered Friday by Michael D. Griffin, the NASA administrator, after a week in which many agency scientists and midlevel public affairs officials described to The New York Times instances in which they said political pressure was applied to limit or flavor discussions of topics uncomfortable to the Bush administration, particularly global warming....
- The statement said the resignation of Mr. Deutsch was "a separate matter."...
- Mr. Deutsch's educational record was first challenged on Monday by Nick Anthis,
It looks like he resigned the week before some blogger 'broke' the story and 3 days later the NYSlimes 'broke' the story.. One could assume that he resigned because of the story that had not yet been released, or he resigned and the story was planted once he was out, when he didn't have a press platform to challenge the findings..
All of this is just my opinion.. no proof yet..