The political hack who advised a NASA web developer that the Big Bang was just an opinion has resigned, The New York Times reports, following several days of furor over his remarks.
George Deutsch’s “resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the [space] agency asserted,” the Times continues.
It’s hard to say at this point which was Deutsch’s fatal error, lying about having a college degree or stomping on the toes of NASA scientists in the interests of his own apparent religio-political agenda. For Washington politicos, it was probably the former, but I’d like to believe the young Mr. Deutsch’s actions were such an embarrassment that the Bush administration had to ask him to leave.
To recap recent events, Deutsch, 24, was a political appointee to the public relations office of NASA. On his résumé, he stated he had a journalism degree from TAMU, which somehow qualified him to run the NASA PR office, despite having no apparent scientific knowledge.
Deutsch tried to limit media access to one of the agency’s experts on global warming, and told the expert hinself to backpedal on his doom-and-gloom predictions of a climatic crisis. Deutsch also required a NASA web developer to use the word “theory” alongside every reference to the Big Bang, saying the Big Bang was just an opinion.
Now if we could only get Deutsch’s big boss to quit, after the public discovers that he too is a know-nothing fraud. No, wait, that could only happen if he got caught with an intern kneeling in front of him. Sorry, I forgot.
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