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#NatureNews NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims nature.com/articles/d4158… cc @pcoffeebreak James Webb, head of NASA from 1961 to 1968, was involved in persecuting gay and lesbian people during his career in government.
"Four astronomers, Lucianne Walkowicz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Brian Nord and Sarah Tuttle, lead the renaming petition. They say that Webb passed a set of memos discussing “the problem of homosexuals and sex perverts” to a senator who was leading the persecution."
"David Johnson, a historian, says there is no evidence that Webb led or instigated persecution. Webb did attend a White House meeting on the threat allegedly posed by gay people, but the context of the meeting was to contain the hysteria that members of Congress were stirring up"
