Post by ktesibios on Jan 30, 2006 16:25:42 GMT -4
One of the routine HBer claims is that scientists, engineers and other knowledgeable people who support the commonly held view of the reality of the Apollo landings are doing so under orders from NASA (or the eevil eevil gummint in general). Of course, evidence supporting the contention that they're coerced, pressured or bribed is not generally supplied.
So, is there any empirical evidence of what happens if and when the political stuffed suits try to tell a NASA scientist what to say, or not to say? I believe I've found some.
The story winds up on the front page of the Sunday New York Times.
Here's the link to the article (registration required):
www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html
The first three paragraphs:
The same story was also on the front page of the Los Angeles Daily News yesterday (for those who don't live here, the DN is a right-leaning, generally pro-administration paper).
Now, this is one guy, the argument is essentially about interpreting data, and TPTB can neither make him shut up nor adhere to Official Opinion nor hush up the fact that they're trying.
Extrapolate that to thousands of technically-expert people with dierect knowledge of the Apollo program and a demand that the data be faked outright and then lied about for nigh forty years. Think it could be done and kept secret?
Will some HBer kindly tell me how?
So, is there any empirical evidence of what happens if and when the political stuffed suits try to tell a NASA scientist what to say, or not to say? I believe I've found some.
The story winds up on the front page of the Sunday New York Times.
Here's the link to the article (registration required):
www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html
The first three paragraphs:
The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.
Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. "They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public," he said.
The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.
Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. "They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public," he said.
The same story was also on the front page of the Los Angeles Daily News yesterday (for those who don't live here, the DN is a right-leaning, generally pro-administration paper).
Now, this is one guy, the argument is essentially about interpreting data, and TPTB can neither make him shut up nor adhere to Official Opinion nor hush up the fact that they're trying.
Extrapolate that to thousands of technically-expert people with dierect knowledge of the Apollo program and a demand that the data be faked outright and then lied about for nigh forty years. Think it could be done and kept secret?
Will some HBer kindly tell me how?
