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The stooge injected into NASA by the Bush administration in order to staunch science communication that neocons/plutocrats/christicons don't like has been revealed to be a complete phony and has tendered his resignation.

God dammit you guys. I wonder whose son-in-law he was...

Actually, I suppose I should say a stooge, not the. I'm guessing that this one (a 24-year-old dropout) just lacked political experience and subtlety.

Yesterday, Dr. Hansen said that the questions about Mr. Deutsch's credentials were important, but were a distraction from the broader issue of political control of scientific information.

"He's only a bit player," Dr. Hansen said of Mr. Deutsch. " The problem is much broader and much deeper and it goes across agencies. That's what I'm really concerned about."