Has anyone read
CNN's article on Nasa's latest air-safety survey, and thier refusal to disclose the findings?
First off, I didn't know that Nasa conducted research on public aviation saftey, so I'm happy to say at least I learned something from the article.
But, This doesn't sound good for Nasa PR, despite the fact that the article fails to ask or say why Nasa's findings are so different than the statistics from the FAA. In other words, it doesn't say that Nasa's data is good, but automatically makes Nasa sound evil for not making the findings public. Go figure.
Anyway, most of it read like a "So what" to me, until I got to this paragraph:
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In its space program, NASA has a deadly history of playing down safety issues. Investigators blamed the 1986 and 2003 shuttle disasters on poor decision making, budget cuts and improperly minimizing risks. NASA decided to go ahead with a 2006 shuttle launch and is moving ahead with one this week despite safety concerns by NASA engineers in both cases
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Does that infuriate anyone else like it does me? Slander and misrepresentation is apparently okay if you are a multi-million dollar news agency. Bleck.