Bob Zubrin Steps In It Again
Space Medicine Men Mislead Congress, Bob Zubrin
Editor’s note: “Fakers”? “Bunk”? Gee, I just love it when an engineer like Mike Griffin’s good friend Bob Zubrin (Griffin is a former Mars Society Steering Committee member) tries to argue physiology with a physiologist – a topic Zubrin clearly doesn’t understand – a topic he none the less tries to dismiss with semantical sleight of hand. It is obvious that Zubrin didn’t actually listen to the hearings. Had he done so he would have heard Pawelczyk talk about centrifugation and countermeasure research needed in that area. But why get all the facts eh?
It should be interesting to see what sort of arm waving Zubrin does when Mike Griffin, Brian Chase, Scott Horowitz (who is still listed as a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee) and other senior NASA personnel share the stage with Bob at the Mars Society Convention this summer. Some advice Bob: sit down and shut up before you look even more foolish than you already have.
“In testimony June 7 to the Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space, fakers associated with the NASA space medicine program presented grossly misleading statements to congress to attempt to justify continued funding of their wasteful and unethical program of human guinea pig research. Exemplary of the bunk presented to the committee was the testimony of James A. Pawelczyk, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology, Kinesiology and Medicine, Pennsylvania State University.”
“The zero-gravity health-effects budget has nothing to do with going to Mars. It is just a matter of protecting the entitlements of as group of people who have nothing better to do than to waste the taxpayer’s money on pointless and unethical experiments while blocking engineering research that would eliminate the problem that serves as their bowl of rice. Furthermore, by both preventing a solution to this problem and wildly exaggerating its magnitude in order to justify their funding, this crowd continues to actively mislead the political class to believe that a human Mars mission is impossible. The sooner these people can be shown the door, the better.”
