Big Bang Brouhaha
NASA official quits after ordering change to science materials.
A NASA public-affairs officer ordered that materials for middle school students on the agency’s Web site—which discuss the most prominent theory of the origin of the universe—be revised so as not to offend religious perspectives.
The public-affairs officer, George C. Deutsch III, has since resigned from the agency.
The New York Times reported Feb. 4 that Mr. Deutsch told a Web designer hired by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to make revisions to...
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