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Comment It'll give them time to change the name (Score 3, Insightful) 42

James Webb participated in an LGBT purge in the Federal government back in the day. No matter how good a NASA administrator he was, he doesn't deserve a telescope to be named after him. The name was assigned without any input from the scientific community. Yeah, that is the prerogative of the NASA administrator, but it was unusual to name a mission after a non-scientist. Just as it is important to remember Werner von Braun's contribution helping us get to the Moon we cannot forget his Nazi past, we must remember Webb's contribution, but they deserve no memorials for their past.

Comment So not a lab leak (Score 1, Insightful) 123

That does sound more plausible. If only someone hadn't removed our disease monitors from China, disbanded our pandemic response team, shelved our pandemic response plans, ignored the pandemic until it reached our shores, downplayed the severity of it, saiid it would go away, and did everything possible to make it hard for states and hospitals to control the pandemic or get access to PPE.

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