Jonathan Katz: Member Of Science Team Tasked With Gulf Solution Is A Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist
Monday, May 17, 2010
Those who question what his beliefs about homosexuality have to do with his being put on a select team to do whatever this team has been tasked to do (we really don't know what the focus is), it's about his credentials as a scientific "genius", or having a scientific mind at all.
Katz equates homosexuality with being in the Ku Klux Klan. Not only is that a value judgment (which would have nothing to do with his appointment, true), but it ignores the best scientific theory that homosexuality is biology, not choice. Yes, the statement makes him a homophobic id-jit, but for these purposes (solving this ecological threat to our nation and world) you also have to wonder how good of a scientist he actually is.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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