Scientists Who Are Actually Really stupid: #1, Neil deGrasse Tyson
(NaturalNews) Neil deGrasse Tyson made the decision a long time ago
to be a sort of media cheerleader for science instead of an actual
scientist, and although he isn't a great communicator, it was the right
decision because he was unlikely ever to trouble the Nobel committee.
Also, he is stupid and his politics are dumb. (Story by Milo Yiannopoulos, republished from Breitbart.com.)
Tyson,
whom liberals love because they are racists who can't believe a black
guy could be smart enough to be a scientist and so spontaneously
ejaculate and soil themselves every time they see him on TV, hasn't
published anything of note for years. The advantage of being a celebrity
scientist is that you don't actually have to do any science. You're
exempted from the usual "publish or perish" rules.
Even when he was
making a go of being a proper academic, Tyson didn't exactly have the
most glittering record. He didn't get the PhD he was studying for at the
University of Texas and had to go elsewhere for his qualification.
Obviously, rather than take responsibility for his academic performance,
Tyson has blamed racism. In reality, Tyson was playing in bands and
appearing on stage[1] instead of completing essays. Typical science PhD students are at any given time either studying, teaching or sleeping.
It's tough to avoid the conclusion that much of what is frustrating about Neil deGrasse Tyson
stems from identity politics and the victimhood ideology peddled by
leftist academics and journalists. Despite all his media success, Tyson
insists that racism is responsible for his academic failures,[2] alluding to sinister "forces" that keep women and ethnic minorities down.
In
2005, he said: "I know these forces are real and I had to survive them
in order to get where I am today. So before we start talking about
genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal
opportunity." He of course doesn't address the fact that the only
reason Neil deGrasse Tyson is on television at all, given his
intellectual shortcomings, is that he is black.
Perhaps realising
how ridiculous he sounds, the world's most celebrated populariser of
science has stopped talking about race in interviews and says he has
never given an interview whose primary focus is race since 1993.[3] Which is something, at least.
Social
justice-inspired grievance culture has flavoured much of Tyson's output
during his media career. Indeed, some observers say he's more left-wing
propagandist than rigorous thinker these days. His reboot of Cosmos,
for instance, was saturated with progressive garbage designed to appeal
to liberal-minded students and lefty geeks.
The problem is, every
time Tyson plays to this crowd, he has to get his facts wrong to make
the argument work. Take his gushing tribute to Giordano Bruno, who was
burned at the stake. None of the details are correct.[4] Bruno wasn't a scientist: he was a cult leader who dined out on wild conjecture and guesswork.
Elsewhere
in Cosmos, Tyson makes other serious errors. I say "errors" but for a
man of his ostensible erudition you do have to wonder how these mistakes
and bizarre claims keep creeping in. He says Venus is suffering from
global warming,[5] for instance. And I think we can live
without the televisual trope of space ships making sound in space —
unless Tyson is claiming no more astrophysical literacy than an episode
of Star Trek.
Because he has given up on the scientific method in
favour of progressive politics, Tyson has jettisoned fairness and fact
in favour of slipperiness and propaganda: he is caught again and again
repeating quotes that he appears to have simply made up, or which at a
bare minimum are stripped of essential context or provenance. He shows
no interest in correcting the record or addressing these mistakes —
we'll be diplomatic and call them mistakes[6] — which does rather cast doubt on his entire benevolent genius schtick, don't you think?
Read more at Breitbart.com.
Sources:
[1] Alcalde.TexasExes.org
[2] Alcalde.TexasExes.org
[3] En.Wikipedia.org
[4] Blogs.DiscoverMagazine.com
[5] TheFederalist.com
[6] TheFederalist.com
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