Neil Degrasse Tyson: "If you're scientifically literate the world looks very different to you&q

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+1 1. fjwjr commented 7 years ago

Oh, like when he was 'scientifically literate' when he got Deflategate completely wrong?
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+2 2. Natan_el_Tigre commented 7 years ago

Might have more punch if he described how science is a tool critical thinkers use to expand humanity's collective sphere of knowledge further into the void where "no man has gone before", into the unknown Joseph Campbell called "God". 8-)
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+5 3. snotraddict commented 7 years ago

I would have liked a couple of simple yet unique examples. For instance.....
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+2 4. thefox commented 7 years ago

Degrasse seems to be stuck rather far up his own arsehole. Watching this, I was struck by the similarity to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0
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+2 5. Judge-Jake commented 7 years ago

I would like to bet he is a very controlling parent and husband, but I totally agree with his point. The world would be a much more peaceful place if more people (and you know who you are) embraced science and the discoveries made over the last couple of hundred years and stopped living a few thousand years in the past. :|
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-1 6. Thanny commented 7 years ago

Down-voting scientific literacy? Must be Trump voters.
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0 7. sux2bu commented 7 years ago

#6 Aw.... are you butt-hurt over the election ? :'( Things can only get better now. ;)
Drain the swamp.:S
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+3 8. Urmensch commented 7 years ago

#1 Someone who is scientifically-literate is not immune from being wrong. Scientists are wrong all the time.
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0 9. Thanny commented 7 years ago

#7 Your comment was so amusing I just had to return and point out that Trump's picks for agency heads and other cabinet members have made the Executive more swampy than ever. Good job.