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The New York Times reported, in a long special yesterday,
that the dogs are baying for the blood of the Director of
the Air and Space Museum (my editorial interpretation, or
"contextualization" if you will.) He seems, according to the
Newtonians quoted in the article, unwilling to revise the
exhibit based upon the veterans' concerns. The final straw,
the capital offense, that these congresspeople described was
his bullheaded insistence on using a very low number
estimate (as I recall 63,000) of the American lives saved by
the bombing, as opposed to the 2 or 3 hundred thousand
preferred by the veterans groups. And this *despite* the
well-informed congresspeople's insistence on the use of the
higher number.
To summarize, the congresspeople want him fired because he
is presenting a point of view that is disconcerting to some
Americans.
What a bunch of depressing crapola. If I may editorialize
again, I personally find this ideological simplemindedness
to be one of the low points of American ways of thinking in
my lifetime, and I've seen a few lows.
The article says that the Smithsonian Board will be meeting
this week to consider his dismissal.
Eric Siegel
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