Neil deGrasse Tyson insults your intelligence… again

[Valin]

Hot Air:

Noah Rothman

April 1, 2015

 

Perhaps no one has done a better job of exposing Neil deGrasse Tyson for the bias-confirming liberal totem that he has become than National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke. Tyson leads a small band of self-described rationalists for whom “science” has become a political value.

 

“Ironically enough, what Tyson and his acolytes have ended up doing is blurring the lines between politics, scholarship, and culture — thereby damaging all three,” Cooke wrote. “Actual science is slow, unsexy, and assiduously neutral — and it carries about it almost nothing that would interest either the hipsters of Ann Arbor or the Kardashian-soaked titillaters over at E!”

 

Tyson has embraced his celebrity, and increasingly seems to view his role as something akin to the Jon Stewart of the hard sciences. He spends his days confirming for a narrow audience of uncurious liberals what they already believe, adding value to their preconceptions by varnishing it with the supposed veneer of incontrovertible truth. Perhaps Tyson’s greatest offense to scientific community is his routine suggestion that today’s conventional wisdom on matters scientific is immutable and unchanging. Real scientific exploration means forever testing biases, never accepting dogma, always allowing for the prospect that your most cherished convictions are unfounded.

 

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His most recent offense occurred during interview with The Daily Beast, where Tyson offered up a series of thoughts on homophobia and the evils of religiosity that will only further cement his brand as chief guardian of liberal self-satisfaction. After offering up a defense of the cultism of Scientology, Tyson went on to lament homophobia’s roots in religion. No, he was not talking about theocratic regimes like the one in Tehran that routinely hangs young men on the suspicion that they may be gay, or the Islamic State militia members who throws gay men from rooftops. Tyson was, of course, indulging in the favored liberal pastime of oikophobic self-loathing by lamenting the rampant homophobia in the United States.

 

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[Cyber_Liberty]

That TV show of his flopped, didn't it?

[Valin]

That TV show of his flopped, didn't it?

 

 

He had a TV show?

[Cyber_Liberty]

@Valin,

 

First episode introduced by the ...gasp...president!

[SrWoodchuck]

My DIL loves this guy. Ugh. What an arrogant pisspot.

[Valin]

@Valin,

 

First episode introduced by the ...gasp...president!

Darn! And I missed it. sigh