Posted on 05/19/2010 2:59:28 PM PDT by reaganaut1
A St. Louis scientist who was among a select group picked by the Obama administration to pursue a solution to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been removed from the group because of writings on his website, the U.S. Energy Department confirmed Wednesday.
Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz was one of five top scientists chosen by the Department of Energy and attended meetings in Houston last week.
Though considered a leading scientist, Katz's website postings often touch on social issues. Some of those writings have stirred anger in the past and include postings defending homophobia and questioning the value of racial diversity efforts.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu was not aware of Katz's writings before selecting him for the panel, spokeswoman Stephanie Mueller said. It was not immediately clear how the department became aware of the writings.
"Dr. Chu has spoken with dozens of scientists and engineers as part of his work to help find solutions to stop the oil spill," a statement from the Energy Department said. "Some of Professor Katz's controversial writings have become a distraction from the critical work of addressing the oil spill. Professor Katz will no longer be involved in the Department's efforts."
Katz did not respond to a phone message and e-mail seeking an interview. The extent of work he performed on the oil spill recovery effort was not immediately known.
In a website posting titled "In Defense of Homophobia," Katz wrote about the AIDS epidemic.
"The human body was not designed to share hypodermic needles, it was not designed to be promiscuous, and it was not designed to engage in homosexual acts," he wrote."
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Of course, what Katz is saying is true, which is why leftists would rather silence such people than debate them.
Didn’t this guy have a cartoon about him back in the day?
Oh, let’s NOT solve the oil spill problem if it’s someone who is non-PC who might help solve it!
Better we swim in oil than have a non-PC scientist on the solution team.
So much for ‘diversity’
Yeah, I saw this too, and thought it was a big deal here at this link. http://www.bnd.com/2010/05/19/1261562/local-professor-dumped-by-white.html
If it were a communist, it would be “freedom of speech”. Liberals are hypocrites. Too bad many GOPers in Washington don’t have the guts to take them head on when they are in power.
It will have to be one of those two- Jan Brewer is busy right now.
When I have a big problem that I want solved, such as a serious illness or a huge oil spill, I really don’t give a tinker’s damn about what the political beliefs of the person is. I don’t care if they are straight or homosexual, socialist or conservative as long as they can do the job.
But with leftist nutjobs like the ones infesting the White House, politics is EVERYTHING, ability is nothing.
Maybe he wanted to plug the leak with Elton John and Little Richard.
Free Speech! (If you dare...)
Katz may be just the guy we need to stop the leaks. Obama doesn’t care. Katz insulted his best friends in the whole wide world.
Yeah that’s what struck me about this.
But of course it’s okay to be prejudiced against someone who doesn’t agree with you, if you’re a member of the Left in this nation.
Heaven forbid an issue get a rational airing in public.
It is amazing is it not, how "liberals" manage to silence critics. Like the principal who turns off the mike when the valedictorian says something about her religious faith.
I suppose the next thing that Obama will be doing is checking to see if they’re registered Democrats and if they voted for him ... LOL ...
Bet these same clowns would jump at the chance to use some of Joseph Mengle’s research.
That method was used to determine which Chrysler dealerships were closed, so it is a proven democrap startegy.
I agree if he was bringing up these issues in official oil spill reports, where thy don’t belong, then there’s a problem, and I agree with the decision.
However if he just has these personal views and we on his personal, non-work related, website then no problem. And as usual the libs overstep their boundaries while screaming about freedom of speech (net neutrality) for their views.
Which is why we won’t achieve anything of note till political correctness ceases to exist.
As an illustration, I offer the Manhattan Project. Infested with communist symps and leftist scientists, yet they didn’t get sacked.
Chu might do something far worse than mouth Political Incorrectness... something that mandates his immediate removal from this panel! He might actually come up with a solution to "The Worst Oil Spill in the History of History" before all possible political propaganda and benefit is milked from it. Hence, He must go! NOW!!!
” It was not immediately clear how the department became aware of the writings.”
.. gay mafia comes to mind
Yup! I know! I got the wrong name. View the post, not the name!
I suspect they’re interested in recreating it near Southern Lebanon, and near the West Bank and Gaza too.
They’re doing their damnedest to disarm Israel right now.
I hope Israel tells them right where to file that request (demand).
“The human body was not designed to share hypodermic needles, it was not designed to be promiscuous, and it was not designed to engage in homosexual acts,” he wrote.”
Those statements have nothing to do with ideology, rather they’re simple facts which can be arrived at by the simplest among us.
This entire administration is nothing more than a bunch of nancy-boys.
More openess and tolerance from your friends on the American left....
SCUMBAGS.
We will never achieve diversity until we all think and speak alike.
>> was not designed to be
Given that Obama was not designed to be a leader of free people, it makes sense his administratrion would ditch this guy.
truly a Renaissance man...
Knowledgeable on physics, oil, energy, disaster recovery and social issues...among other things...
Ugly specter of profiling in mainstream media
AP Employees Promote Profiling, Persecution Of Religious Americans
Isolate them, expose them, condemn them, demand AP employees.
Katz knows homophobia is genetic, not a choice!
That’s what liberals say as well, but only when it pushes their agenda.
I always love the way AP chooses to phrase things. “Defending homophobia,” “racial diversity efforts.” What’s a racial diversity effort? The races are diverse. Could any action make them more diverse? Could AP possibly mean “affirmative action”? Opposing failed affirmative action efforts doesn’t make one a bigot!
LOL!
While all that’s going on could someone please lower an old tanker(with bottom selectively cut out) over the leak with controllable airbags so the angle could be controlled to pump up the natural gas and the oil through separate manifolds.
Thank you.
Barney Frank
Remember when B.O. was trumpeting the “return of science” to Washington?
Hope his research doesn't depend on any gubmint grants...
This guy must not be towing the line on the polictial front called “BP Must Pay”
The other stuff is just cover
You can tell how promiscuous a species is by how large their testes are in relation to their body size.
A gorilla is a walking wall of muscle who would destroy any male that came near his females, as such a ‘little dab will do ya’ and he has very small and well protected testes.
A chimpanzee female will mate with several male members of the band, as such male chimpanzees have overly large testes so that paternity is more likely.
Our own physical size matches fairly well with the known figure of ‘crypto-paternity’ (daddy ain't who mommy says is the daddy) among most human populations of around 10%.
So we ARE designed for monogamy. But we are also designed to accommodate a bit of fooling around.
Not the correct Jonathan Katz.
You’re looking for a .edu site. I looked him up the other day, saw the essay in question, and wondered if anyone in the Obama Admin had vetted the guy.
Are you kidding me-?!?! They didn’t ‘vet’ half the regime-!!! Particularly the head of it-!!!
May OD BLESS PROFESSOR KATZ!! He is Wonderful!
Rush pointed his beliefs out today fantastically
and wondered aloud how the Gay OBOZO could have
selected this clearly qualified Expert given his
clearly stated Conservative Beliefs! Clearly,we
know now the WH freaked out as they were monitoring
RUSH’S Commentary today! FIRE CHU NOW!!
When the GOP Senators (except for Graham) vote against Kagen, they should all articulate word for word the same reason stated here by this clown’s Regime.
The Marxist in the WH desire to “disappear” any and all freedom of speech that conflicts or disagrees with his dogmatic Leftism.
I do not see homophobia
revulsion? yes(for the disgusting practices) pity?? some, for the poor gay b!tche$, and anger??? most assuredly for the destruction of society.
but fear or phobia does not enter into it....
blatantly political, that is to say... bad habit getting into rant mode. I make hugh grammatical misakes.
more pc bullshit, pigshit and horseshit. so someone whom dislikes homosexuals but is considered weel rooted in the problem about stopping the oil spill. Lets see the Obozo administration states nope you need to step down because you are not affirmative action. lets see oil spill will discriminate from landing on white peoples property only and avoid all black peoples yards and property. come now what a bunch of pc run amok. Obozo will politicize everything.
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