Neil deGrasse Tyson under attack for fabricating quotes
A series of recent articles have attacked Neil deGrasse Tyson for fabricating quotes and other facts in this lectures and presentations. This article provides a good summary.
The article also notes how Tyson’s behavior is quite typical for too many modern scientists, especially those who have been touting human-caused global warming these past two decades.
In related news, climate scientist Judith Curry gave a talk at the National Press Club this week in which she outlined very cogently the real scientific debate and how politics is distorting that process. Unlike Tyson, Curry does not mince words about the data, and considers the fabrication of information to be a terrible thing for scientists to do.
And then there’s this: The Lonesomest Mann in Town.
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A series of recent articles have attacked Neil deGrasse Tyson for fabricating quotes and other facts in this lectures and presentations. This article provides a good summary.
The article also notes how Tyson’s behavior is quite typical for too many modern scientists, especially those who have been touting human-caused global warming these past two decades.
In related news, climate scientist Judith Curry gave a talk at the National Press Club this week in which she outlined very cogently the real scientific debate and how politics is distorting that process. Unlike Tyson, Curry does not mince words about the data, and considers the fabrication of information to be a terrible thing for scientists to do.
And then there’s this: The Lonesomest Mann in Town.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Once you have chosen a side, for what ever reason, then you become a zealot for your cause and you have surrendered some degree of your objectivity. At that point you may dilute your “scientific” credentials because now you are a part of a cause and a movement, you are smart and good, and they can not be right so they are not smart and are not good. And now that you have established that “FACT” you can pander to the emotions of the public so they get on board, you have done the thinking and concluding for them. Now let the mocking and name calling commence, their is consensus, the science is settled.
Would Neil DeGrass Tyson ever participate in a board such as this and put his conclusions to the test and defend his position?
This is something that always bothered me about NdT. To into his showmanship – and by Cosmos, advocacy. Not enough self questioning, or mentioning about possible questions, or contrary ideas or evidence.
It is official, Neil Degrass Tyson is a woke “progressive” self-important opinionated XXX XXXX:
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/06/piers-morgan-clashes-neil-degrasse-tyson-sports-trans-athletes/
“What I see is sports is on the frontier of how to handle this frontier of people who are trans. It’s on the frontier of how to resolve that. And I’m making this up now: imagine the future of sports does not distinguish sex, it distinguishes and sorts people by hormone ratios,” Tyson said.
Shameful.
Just stick to the cosmos.
I consume a lot of material from science-popularizers.
Tyson is an affirmative action hire, at every level. I don’t care where he went to school.
There are people here at BtB who know more about physics and science in general, than he does.
I equate him with bill nye the fake science guy.
Joe Rogan & Brian Keating
“Can You Trust Science Popularizers?”
https://youtu.be/yEabY6XWTvA
(7:02)
wayne: I have been a space/science popularizer for more than three decades, but because I am also not of the right ethnic and racial preference and am conservative, I have been blocked repeatedly in my career. It is why I decided to focus my work here, where no one else can act to shut me up. I had enough of that previously.
Sean Carroll is another victim of TDS. Never worked a day in the private sector in his life. His physics *sound* reasonable (less and less I must add), but he uses the exact same logical contortions to attack Trump and 70 million voters, because we’re all too stupid to appreciate his brilliance. (Carroll’s wife, is a nut as well, and she has a big audience.)
Neil deGrasse Tyson and His Brainless Sidekick Clown
Showing How Gullible People Truly Are
https://youtu.be/iZs0HKAqySA
2:46
What It’s Like Being Married to Neil deGrasse Tyson
Key & Peele (august 2021)
https://youtu.be/TyZSBqQ813c
4:27
In the Alternate Universe, Tyson is currently processing ore at a work-camp.
Whoops–Language Alert on the Key & Peele video.
There is a difference between “experts” (That know everything like Sean and Neil) and the council that they might give to (The public) or leadership and leadership itself.
Many people tend to conflate the one, with the other, and that is incorrect.
Leadership is not a function of research and data.
And when leadership surrenders their decision making to the “Experts” then the one thing that can ensue and is ensured is authoritarian “logic” and mandated behavior.