Lawmaker (R., NY) Condemns NASA Over Scientist's Censorship Accusations

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Lawmaker Condemns NASA Over Scientist's Accusations of Censorship
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: January 31, 2006


The chairman of the House Science Committee sharply criticized NASA yesterday after the agency's top climate scientist and several public affairs officers complained of political pressure intended to prevent public discussions of global warming.

"Good science cannot long persist in an atmosphere of intimidation," the chairman, Representative Sherwood Boehlert, Republican of New York, said in a letter to NASA's administrator, Michael D. Griffin.

"Political figures ought to be reviewing their public statements to make sure they are consistent with the best available science," Mr. Boehlert said. "Scientists should not be reviewing their statements to make sure they are consistent with the current political orthodoxy."

The New York Times first reported the complaints on Saturday.

The climate scientist, James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, and several other National Aeronautics and Space Administration employees said Bush administration appointees at headquarters had demanded to review his lectures and publications in advance. Moreover, senior agency officials were to have had the right to stand in for him in interviews with reporters....


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/science/31climate.html?_r=1&oref=login

[SpiralHawk]

1. Griffin should just shut up and Assume the Position

like the rest of the Republicans. There is no global climate change, according to Anal Cyst Oxycontin Boy, so that makes it Infallible neoCON Truth.

We don't neeed no steenkin Thinkers or Scientists on the loose spreading facts al over the place.

So just shut up, bend over, and wait till the flood waters cover your butt.

Republican Experts agree: Everything is just fine.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. "Intellectuals" are always first against the wall n/t

[WhiteTara]

3. could this r be a d in disguise?

That's how they took much of our party. They just called themselves on and then showed who they were after the election...be nice to think that some republicans were thinking, caring individuals.