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He fancies himself a genius on all subjects because he gained attention for being well spoken in one subject.  When you actual hear him speak on anything out of his lane, he's actually a complete dumbass and he talks down to anyone who disagrees with him, because you know, he's a scientist who knows all.

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I have closer ties to Samsquanch because we both live and roam the forest. Science bitches.

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Only when it's against conservatives.

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He's a smart guy and is very articulate...but now-a-days, the more he opens his mouth, the less I like him.

Haven't liked him since his last JRE podcast.

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I thought it was a created meme for trolling.

Now black science guy is really racist? Wholey moley.

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Just imagine the reaction if a white compared blacks to monkeys.   Instant shutdown/cancellation/banning/protests.
Look what happened to Jimmy The Greek when he naively tried to explain black muscle structure

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I'm not offended and I couldn't care less what the guy says, see how simple that is, the rest of the World should follow my lead, I could be a trend setter.

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I already considered him a celebrity over an actual scientist, but his covid comments really solidified for me that he is nothing but a shithead.

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He is not a stupid man.
Like it or not, there has been some discussion on the down low about his SAT scores from the 70s and his GRE scores from a few years after that.

Which pretty much are on par with an IQ 2 sd above the mean.
And average for someone with a physical science degree.

And smarter than about 98% of the general population.

So about 2% of the general population are in this range.
Maybe 4% or so of vanilla white/Europeans.
About 6% or so North Asians and Ashkenazi.
Overall, about 0.5% of Latin Americans are.  It’s a biphasic curve.  Mainly.
But about 0.1% of African Americans.  
And he had an African American father.  His mother was Puerto Rican.  Which means anything from white as a Hitler youth to mestizo to Africa black and everything in between.  I have no idea. I have the understanding that both were college educated and hard working and gainfully employed and supported his love of science from childhood.

Now, while that may have been average smart for a physical sciences major overall, there are some fields a little harder than others.  He completed his course work, was having problems with his research, took his masters, and dropped from his first Ph.D. Endeavor.  I think he bumped around as a lecturer in the field and then knocked out his Ph.D. On the second go around.

He is smarter than the vast majority of the general population, average for a physical sciences type overall, but below average for say some guy with a Ph.D. In math, physics, P Chem, etc.

But in general, a lot of people in the arena of academic Ph.D.s in Physics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics love him. Some do not.  But overall,
Because he has a general love of science, tries to instill this love in the general public, is a rarity, is on the surface married for 30 something years, role model, etc.there is a positive vibe. Insiders will admit he is a little too gropey on occasion, but do not believe the rape allegations.

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A bit insulting.  We are apes, not monkeys.

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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-neil-degrasse-tyson-reveal-the-complexity-of-academic-inequality/



He's a loud mouth bag of shit rapist

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He is not smart.  He’s a shill trying to push progressive ideas under the guise of science.

He’s at best a misguided priest in the religion of science.  At worst he’s intentionally sold his morals.

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Here is the video where the comment happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nflMVD3K4Sk

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He's a smart guy and is very articulate...but now-a-days, the more he opens his mouth, the less I like him.

Haven't liked him since his last JRE podcast.

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He’s memorized some text books and he can recall what he’s studied…….that’s not “smart” nor does recalling information gleaned by others make him a “genius”.

He’s “educated and articulate”.

Book memorization doesn’t equal wisdom.

A real genius uses a combination of study, reasoning, and wisdom to discover or create something new.

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28 posts left or my prediction is wrong

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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-neil-degrasse-tyson-reveal-the-complexity-of-academic-inequality/



He's a loud mouth bag of shit rapist

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It's just totally ok to be racist so long as it's against the global minority that is white people and western(American, Euro) culture.  It's ok, it's not "hate" if you don't have the "power."

Oh evolutionary arguments, how they amuse me.  I like the idea that a hand tranforming into a foot (without any fossil links showing this astounding progression, don't worry, it's "punctuated"), and LOSING immense amounts of strength, and protective body hair, are all evolutionary changes that are articulated as "disadvantageous" when it comes to transforming apes into humans.  All through the magic of genetic copying errors, and in-spite of genes switching on and off environmentally-aka-epigenetics.  Glorious logic, very science.
Meanwhile turtles, sharks, and old species discovered to still exist, etc. hardly changed all during hundreds of millions of years and immense changes in food, threats, and climate, (don't worry though, we call it "stasis" because...reasons).  

Oh the magical shapeshifting self-assuming(tautological) rationale that if-something-is, it must be because it served some infinitesimal survival function over countless generations(aka that creature with that gene made more babies, that line had more babies, etc.), thus we can come up with some made-up story, no matter how absurd, no matter how problematic all the in-between stages would have been to survival, or how dysfunctional a half "evolved" foot would be, no matter how the identical trait could be argued as having survival "fitness" in one creature, and hamper survival in another, it's washed over with elegant evolutionary wrapping paper, then we wrap it up, and put it in a pretty little science box with a bow, and go, "see, this is why "X" is the way it is, we know, we super duper know. Trust the science."  We put it in science books and museums, the media tells the stories, every field of science integrates the just-so stories even though they add nothing to the actual science of the field, writers integrate it into all manner of stories and articles, and the masses who were never exposed to any real serious challenges to it gobble it up(even better, misunderstand it and regurgitate it as Lamarckianism), and best of all, the scientists who's jobs it is to toe-the-line or be mocked out of academia and research definitely believe it, and thus we can proudly say, "see, most everyone believes it, and that's how we know. Trust the science."  

It's truly an ingenious a bulwark as the climate science, or the zeitgeist of LGBT logic.  Hey, does anyone remember when the Nazis used evolutionary logic at the times to degrade the Jews?  Pepperidge Farms remembers.

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I can’t wait for all of Latin America to finish flowing across the border.  Watching blacks get shoved to the side by the race baiting establishment is going to be delicious.

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Of course hominids resemble each other.  It’s taxonomy.  Variations exist of course.  Some hominids can carry bigger chips on their shoulders, but modern psychologists have failed to develop the standardized CCQ test, so it’s left as a take home exercise for social psychologists and free lance forensic anthropologists. Public transportation is a good field study location.

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Doesn't this guy believe we live in a simulation?