6 February 2006

America, idiot (part 2)

I recently posted Pharyngula's rant on America's confusion of politics and science. The recent revelation of NASA scientists getting strong-armed by political appointees to supress and alter references to the Big Bang (not so unique, but still unnerving) is unwelcome but relevant. /. points to Bad Astronomy Blog's nice, and angry, overview of the situation. The most despicable quote from said appointee George Deutsch:

This [discussing the Big Bang] is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue. And I would hate to think that young people would only be getting one-half of this debate from NASA. That would mean we had failed to properly educate the very people who rely on us for factual information the most.

Jackass. These people are idiots and should die. As we are bewildered by the crippling backwardness of Muslim extremists who demand foreign countries muzzle their free press, we should be looking as closely at our own fundamentalist dullards who would cripple science by trying to make it bend to opinion and policy. Have you no shame?

[ posted by sstrader on 6 February 2006 at 2:23:43 PM in Politics ]