Swaggering idiots
Nick Anthis, who graduated from Texas A&M, finds out that George Deutsch did not. He did attend, and was an opinion editor for the student newspaper The Battalion, but left without graduating. Apparently the offer of a position with the Bush campaign was just too good of an opportunity to turn down. I wonder what his resume says – surely, he had a background check before being confirmed as a politically appointed public affairs officer at NASA? The power must have really gone to his head. I’ll bet he swaggers too.
Update 1/8/06: Andy Revkin/NYT confirms, Deutsch lied on his resumé and has also now resigned from NASA. Perhaps he will follow in Brownie’s footsteps and start a consulting firm – to counsel public affairs officers on what not to do or say when communicating science… As with Brownie, the real issue is, who put him up to this? As Dr. Hansen said, he is only a bit player – important only as an indicator of a bigger problem, of the political control of scientific information, which is a threat to what is left of our democracy.
