NASA Science Under Attack

The Bad Astronomer writes "The New York Times is reporting that NASA science is being harassed and even sometimes suppressed by presidential political appointees. The article details how NASA scientists dealing with such topics as global warming and the Big Bang are under attack for ideological and religious reasons." The submitter also has a running commentary summarizing a bit of the background of the story on his blog.

Comments

The Administration's Public Relations philosophy:

[Starker_Kull]

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. "

They didn't say it, but they sure act that way.

Re:Muslims offended by cartoon but not by murder

[ajs318]

When your five-year-old has an Imaginary Friend whom they blame for their own wrongdoings -- the I.F. either did it, or made them do it -- then it's time for Mr and Mrs Spank to pay a visit to Bottyville.

So why do we put up with adults having Imaginary Friends, if their Imaginary Friend is called "God" ?

Re:Old but with a new twist.

[WindBourne]

Uh no. He is in the majority of the republicans. They all scream that they believe in logic and science. That is, until it conflicts with their personal belief, religion, or budget. Then that "for the most part", is blown up to be that it represents all Americans except for a very small minority.

• There are republicans who want to kill off NASA because they never went to the moon.
• Others want to stop all palintology because it is a waste of money as the earth is only 6000 years old.
• There are others who want to kill off any biological research involving vaccines, because liberals are putting wicked chemicals in them to kill everyone.
• There are some who want to stop all research into global warming because it is not happening (in spite of simple evidence of fast melting glaciers everywhere except the center of Antartica and Greenland).
• And those that accept science and acknowledge global warming want nothing to do with solving this issue (even though the easy fix would be to push nukes and oddly, only a few support this ; tells what influence the oil/coal industry has).
• And of course, the standard republican who is opposed to abortion, but is also fighting anything to do with birth control.