Posted on 05/19/2010 2:59:28 PM PDT by reaganaut1
A St. Louis scientist who was among a select group picked by the Obama administration to pursue a solution to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been removed from the group because of writings on his website, the U.S. Energy Department confirmed Wednesday.
Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz was one of five top scientists chosen by the Department of Energy and attended meetings in Houston last week.
Though considered a leading scientist, Katz's website postings often touch on social issues. Some of those writings have stirred anger in the past and include postings defending homophobia and questioning the value of racial diversity efforts.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu was not aware of Katz's writings before selecting him for the panel, spokeswoman Stephanie Mueller said. It was not immediately clear how the department became aware of the writings.
"Dr. Chu has spoken with dozens of scientists and engineers as part of his work to help find solutions to stop the oil spill," a statement from the Energy Department said. "Some of Professor Katz's controversial writings have become a distraction from the critical work of addressing the oil spill. Professor Katz will no longer be involved in the Department's efforts."
Katz did not respond to a phone message and e-mail seeking an interview. The extent of work he performed on the oil spill recovery effort was not immediately known.
In a website posting titled "In Defense of Homophobia," Katz wrote about the AIDS epidemic.
"The human body was not designed to share hypodermic needles, it was not designed to be promiscuous, and it was not designed to engage in homosexual acts," he wrote."
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This guy must not be towing the line on the polictial front called “BP Must Pay”
The other stuff is just cover
You can tell how promiscuous a species is by how large their testes are in relation to their body size.
A gorilla is a walking wall of muscle who would destroy any male that came near his females, as such a ‘little dab will do ya’ and he has very small and well protected testes.
A chimpanzee female will mate with several male members of the band, as such male chimpanzees have overly large testes so that paternity is more likely.
Our own physical size matches fairly well with the known figure of ‘crypto-paternity’ (daddy ain't who mommy says is the daddy) among most human populations of around 10%.
So we ARE designed for monogamy. But we are also designed to accommodate a bit of fooling around.
Not the correct Jonathan Katz.
You’re looking for a .edu site. I looked him up the other day, saw the essay in question, and wondered if anyone in the Obama Admin had vetted the guy.
Are you kidding me-?!?! They didn’t ‘vet’ half the regime-!!! Particularly the head of it-!!!
May OD BLESS PROFESSOR KATZ!! He is Wonderful!
Rush pointed his beliefs out today fantastically
and wondered aloud how the Gay OBOZO could have
selected this clearly qualified Expert given his
clearly stated Conservative Beliefs! Clearly,we
know now the WH freaked out as they were monitoring
RUSH’S Commentary today! FIRE CHU NOW!!
When the GOP Senators (except for Graham) vote against Kagen, they should all articulate word for word the same reason stated here by this clown’s Regime.
The Marxist in the WH desire to “disappear” any and all freedom of speech that conflicts or disagrees with his dogmatic Leftism.
I do not see homophobia
revulsion? yes(for the disgusting practices) pity?? some, for the poor gay b!tche$, and anger??? most assuredly for the destruction of society.
but fear or phobia does not enter into it....
blatantly political, that is to say... bad habit getting into rant mode. I make hugh grammatical misakes.
more pc bullshit, pigshit and horseshit. so someone whom dislikes homosexuals but is considered weel rooted in the problem about stopping the oil spill. Lets see the Obozo administration states nope you need to step down because you are not affirmative action. lets see oil spill will discriminate from landing on white peoples property only and avoid all black peoples yards and property. come now what a bunch of pc run amok. Obozo will politicize everything.
Thats the wrong guy. Hes the Jewish comedian, not the professor.
Libersl SAY all sorts of things. They mean very little of it except the parts where they say they want to raise your taxes and destroy your way of life.
Sounds to me like they PROFILED him.
Pretty soon. people will need certified “PC” papers to get any work with this administration. And they will have to show their papers upon demand.
Some of those writings have stirred anger in the past and include postings defending homophobia and questioning the value of racial diversity efforts. Energy Secretary Steven Chu was not aware of Katz's writings before selecting him for the panel...There's no such thing as homophobia, that's just semantics and spin-doctoring that no one in their right mind should accept. Of course, if Katz were a tax-evader, or a Moslem, he'd have been home free.
We don’t have science anymore. There is no area of research that people don’t have to be worried about thinking outside the perscribed corporate/political/social box. The pursuit and publication of truth or fact is no longer science in the US. I have been told this by medical researchers. This is going to torpedo our edge in science.
This was a case where they didn’t vet him for conservative beliefs. He actually wasn’t a hardcore socialist-multiculturalist.
10% eh? What population is that in? The faculty members at NYU? The Sharpton or Clinton clans?
good points, but I would also emphasize that “affirmative action” is a tendentious, biased expression invented by leftists to make discriminatory policies sound nice, i.e., using the words “affirmative action” in the contexts they are usually applied is in essence politically correct and aimed at biasing all of us in favor of such policies (just like “racial diversity efforts”).
Think of the phrase “beneficial racism” which is NOT used but expresses a concept rather close to the policies advocated by people pushing policies of “affirmative action.” It would be hard for leftists to succeed as well with policies labeled “beneficial racism” but they get away with “affirmative action” and have all of the media and even millions of conservatives accepting their biased terms of the debate.
“reverse discrimination” is more exact although also controversial, since of course that phrase calls attention to the FACT that liberals are pushing for another kind of discrimination to counter-act what they regard as pernicious discrimination.
Ironically, nowadays the beneficiaries of AA/RD are virtually never sufferers of the old, bad racial/ethnic discriminations of the past which held back their ancestors, while the millions of people adversely affected by AA/RD are virtually never the people who committed any relevant act(s) of discrimination long ago.
But the left cannot allow people to focus upon the fact that there is extensive bias and “discrimination” introduced by every plan to favor some applicants/candidates/workers/etc. over others based upon race, sex, etc. So “affirmative action” has been the politically correct phrase thrown about for the past 30-40 years.
I guess he didn’t qualify because of his views on putting a “pipe” in a “hole”.
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