No. You didn't. You worked for a scam artist.
“No. You didn’t. You worked for a scam artist. “
He had NASA credentials. However, your point is well taken. I suspect, though, that the way he operated is how all of them operate. The name of the academic game is money. The people who have it have an agenda they want proven by “science.”
This is the global warming scam. None of those “scientists” who really are knowledgeable about their craft could possibly “believe” in anthropomorphic global warming. (Come on, you could fit 1.3 million Earths inside the sun and, technically, the Earth is still in an ice age, but just a mild part of one.) But the people with the GW agenda have money. If the scientists play along they live well; plush offices, BMW’s, foreign vacations... If they don’t, they will likely find they can’t get a job at a university sweeping floors. It’s a sucky system, but that’s how it works.
The governments of today have a much firmer grip over “science” than the Catholic church did at the time of Copernicus.
Here’s an interesting article on the Church and science.