This just in! George Deutsch, the NASA public affairs officer who knew too little, has resigned his post at NASA. Dean Acosta, another PAO, said that NASA doesn't discuss personal issues, but it's clear why Deutsch had to quit: he lied on his resume. As Nick Anthis from the blog "The Scientific Activist" discovered, Deutsch did not graduate from Texas A&M as he claimed. He left the school before graduating, since he was offered the NASA position by the Bush administration. Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, who broke the original story about Deutsch, has the goods this time as well:
According to his résumé, Mr. Deutsch received a "Bachelor of Arts in journalism, Class of 2003." Yesterday, officials at Texas A&M said that was not the case. [...] A copy of Mr. Deutsch's résumé was provided to The Times by someone working in NASA headquarters who, along with ...
