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From: mcgeer%ji@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (Rick McGeer)
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Subject: Re: Do we really need to leave this planet?
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 12:44:26 EST
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	[The rest of this message was non-space related, so I'm responding
personally to that.  However, this one bit...]

>Simply consider: why hasn't the press mentioned that the "Teacher in
>Space" public relations promotion was originally brought up to defuse
>the opposition by the teacher's union to Reagan education cuts?

Maybe because there's no evidence whatever that it's true?  There are millions
of speculations that we can all make, most of them very ugly indeed.  The press
prints some of them, even when there's no evidence whatever.  To their
credit, they've skipped on this one and (mostly) on the nasty
pressure-from-the-White-House scenario on the Challenger disaster.  We should,
too.  In sum: don't make charges unless you have evidence to back them up.

						-- Rick.