The Politics of Science, Washington Post, 2/9/06

“…several New York Times articles over the past week or so have exposed Mr.

Deutsch as one of several White House-appointed public affairs officers

at the agency who tried to prevent senior NASA career scientists from

speaking and writing freely, especially when their views on the realities of

climate change differed from those of the White House.”

“Mr, Deutsch also instructed another NASA scientist to add the word ‘theory’ after every written mention of the Big Bang, on the grounds that the accepted scientific explanation of the origins of the universe ‘is an opinion’ and that NASA should not discount the possibility of ‘intelligent design by a creator’.”

Bush vs. Science, Washington Post, 2/6/06

“…the Union of Concerned Scientists has collected the signatures of more than 8,000 scientists—including 49 Nobel laureates, 63 National Medal of Science recipients and 171 members of the National Academies—who accuse the Administration of an unprecedented level of political intrusion into their world.”

Summers’ remarks on women draw fire, Boston Globe, 1/17/05

“The president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, sparked an uproar at an academic conference Friday when he said that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Summers also questioned how much of a role discrimination plays in the dearth of female professors in science and engineering at elite universities.”

“…the problem of women in academia is one that Summers is confronting in his role as university president. The percentage of tenured job offers made to women by the university's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has dropped dramatically since Summers took office, prompting vigorous complaints from many of Harvard's senior female professors.”