Re: Bush appointee trying to push Creationism on NASA

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:01:17 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote, in part:
David M. Palmer wrote:

The only response came from Donald Tighe of the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy. "Science is respected and protected and
highly valued by the administration," he said.

Particularly if it can be used to their political ends.

You won't catch the Americans ignoring the atom bomb because relativity
and quantum mechanics are "Jewish science" or "idealistic" (and hence
contradictory to dialectical materialism).

But wasn't the original story from the Onion?

John Savard
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