smooth wombat's Journal: Texas: Neil Armstrong, you're no scientist

One has to wonder when the assault against reason and common sense will end. It's bad enough there are those who think that a religious precept is a valid scientific principle despite not offering any testable evidence to support their claim, now we have the second largest state in the nation claiming that Neil Armstrong is not a scientist and that 5th graders shouldn't have to memorize his name as the first person on the moon in their social studies class.

I'm not sure how someone with two different engineering degrees who used those degrees to help progress both the aeronautical and space programs can not be considered a scientist.

Texans may like to claim that George W. Bush is not one of them, but continuing to do stupid things like this does nothing to disprove the linkage.

Well...

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Strictly speaking, he's not trained as a scientist, but it strikes me as a silly controversy. I suppose leading an expedition that was at least to some extent scientific qualifies you.