Jonathan Katz: Member Of Science Team Tasked With Gulf Solution Is A Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist

Katz has some startling opinions on a whole host of topics.



How, as a scientist, he comes to his opinions, is troubling. He states things that aren't true, proven falsehoods, as facts. According to him, the war in Iraq was justifiable, because "Al Qaeda carried out the attacks in cooperation with, & perhaps at the behest of, Saddam Hussein and Iraq". And "The single most important fact, confirmed by the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, is that Mohammad Atta, the ringleader of the terrorist attacks of September 11, met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague a few months before". All of which has been exposed as false. Katz also claims, "Some evidence is incontrovertable; for example, that Iraq organized an unsuccessful plot to assassinate former President Bush when he visited Kuwait in April, 1993". Not true. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pentagon_report_finds_no_evidence_of_0324.html

http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/baghdad.html



He seems to only consider information that validates his beliefs, & rejects what doesn't fit his pre-formed opinions. For example, he believes that discrimination against women in the field of physics (& other fields in science & the law) doesn't exist because his wife has never experienced it & neither of them have ever seen it in at Washington University where they teach.
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