{"id":10892,"date":"2019-09-08T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10892"},"modified":"2019-09-08T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T17:02:17","slug":"quote-for-the-day-198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10892","title":{"rendered":"Quotes for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It is truly sad to see political appointees undermining the superb, life-saving work of NOAA\u2019s talented and dedicated career servants. Scientific integrity at a science agency matters.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/nation\/article\/Agency-denounced-for-defending-Trump-s-14421967.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Lubchenco<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This rewriting history to satisfy an ego diminishes NOAA.  We don\u2019t want to get the point where science is determined by politics rather than science and facts. And I\u2019m afraid this is an example where this is beginning to occur.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/nation\/article\/Agency-denounced-for-defending-Trump-s-14421967.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elbert Friday<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Until yesterday, Trump&#8217;s boo-boo and focus upon Dorian&#8217;s storm track was merely an amusing example of his incompetence and narcissism.  With NOAA&#8217;s rebuke of its own scientists late Friday, however, it became something vastly more ominous: A scientific agency has been suborned to the protection of a madman&#8217;s vanity at the cost of plain facts in the public domain; it has become an accomplice in distorting and perverting reality.<\/p>\n<p>Whomever issued that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/06\/politics\/noaa-tweet-nws-trump-alabama\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">craven statement<\/a> failed an ethical duty to resign, and ought to be fired just as soon as the next president is sworn-in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is truly sad to see political appointees undermining the superb, life-saving work of NOAA\u2019s talented and dedicated career servants. Scientific integrity at a science agency matters. Jane Lubchenco This rewriting history to satisfy an ego diminishes NOAA. We don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10895,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892\/revisions\/10895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}