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.

His argument for that made logical sense but being in favor of forcing it on people is a stupid position to take.  For example if 1% got covid and died but of those taking the vaccine if only 0.1% died from covid and 0.1% died from the vaccine, then the logical conclusion given the information at the time is less death from getting vaccinated.  Of course the people dying from the vaccine include younger healthier people compared it being mostly older and obese people from covid.  At that point you are just trading lives and need to argue whose life is worth more or less.  From a strictly death number view Tyson's position is accurate.  I think most people will agree that forcing it is wrong and then trading lives is wrong.  

Pretty much this. Blowhard incarnate. Anyone remember his retarded tweet about helicopters vs airplanes where he was completely unaware of the concept of autorotation?

I used to listen to his podcast many years ago. After about the 87th reference to cooking a pizza in 9 seconds on the surface of Venus and somehow equating that to the rising CO2/global warming of earth, I gave up. Having a different opinion is fine, I just ask that you don't be an insufferable twat about it.

The best example I can think of was his tweet about Top Gun 2 where was basically said “well akchually, you’d die if you ejected at Mach 10”.  No shit, it’s a movie, suspend your disbelief and just enjoy one of the few non garbage movies to come out of Hollywood recently.  If you made an accurate movie about fighter pilots without an element of fantasy it’d be boring as shit, because it would be 10% flying and 90% endless staff meetings and mandatory sexual harassment training.

Me too.

I'm just here for the bantz.

It ok, because it's ok to be racist towards the whites.

Sus.

If you believe "racist" is a real word, you have to believe its definition as defined by the people who wield it. If you believe that, you have to believe its actually impossible to be racist against whites.

Dr Lexus, paging Dr. Lexus....

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Bias is science…

NdT is just another establishment, consensus science lemming.  Don't take anything he says seriously.

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.

I don't follow him but he seems like a fairly reasonable guy and knows how to teach complex topics simply.

The source video is pretty entertaining, not your typical liberal incideoius bullcrap.

Is this where I chimp out and riot because he said I’m a monkey?

Nope sorry not that fragile

Unfounded?

Are we not still doing "Believe All Women"?

People get the impression that he is because his one admirable talent is to talk to his audiences level.

bingo

Only when it’s against conservatives.

At 2

If he is/was a vaxxer, then a douche he is.

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That's hurtful about my treehouse, Neil. Hurtful. Real hurtful.

Got kicked out at UT, but bleeding hearts at Columbia gave him a doctorate.  Never a practicing astronomer, just a gadfly.

I just ripped somebody's face off with my teeth in anger.

And then wrote a haiku about it.

Pluto was never a planet.

The actual planets got sick of seeing its weiner in the planet bathroom.

It doesn't bother me.

I was called "Honky" in the '70s & '80s.

I was called "Cracker" in the '90s.

I got jumped as a kid.

This doesn't faze me.

Guess what, some folks do more than others.

Ron Perlman


Patrick Ewing


Neville Brand


Kiell Smith-Bynoe

Maybe he's relating white feral behavior and violence to simians.

Either all races are truly equal, or they are not.  Stop playing the handicap game.

Same.

Science guy dips foot in political quicksand.

The pot calling the kettle black.

Smart, articulate guys can still be complete rhetorical conning ideologues and some of them are even more at risk of becoming as such - just like this racist focusing on skin color

He's a scientist on the level of Bill Nye

Nazism comes in all colors now.

What’s wrong with resembling monkeys?

He's a faggot and a half and very convinced of his own superiority.

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The actual interview, for the rare arfcommer with genuine intellectual curiosity regarding what he actually said, in context.

Time for me to chime in again. You guys need to watch the actual video. You are acting like this is the Covid for and falling for fake news.

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Hmmmmm.

Just as nonsensical as everything else that bag of shit says

Is this dude a black Bill Nye? Likes to sound smart about science but doesn't have the credentials to back it up?

Here is the video where the comment happens.