On Del Bigtree's show, The Highwire, Neil deGrasse Tyson committed two classic logical fallacies, and it's important that you know what those fallacies are so you can recognize them as well.
Del was right to bring him on, but his arguments were very unimpressive especially repeating “consensus”. He just came off as a sell out to me. He could understand the issue but chose not to because it wouldn’t help his career.
It was difficult to watch. He continued to deflect responsibility; yet he went public parroting the narrative....based on his false belief that other "consensus scientists" had done the research. And that the data was clear and unbiased. That is religious or ideological belief if I ever heard one.
That argument is especially invalidated by the manipulation of public opinion carried out by social media, publishing platforms, and legacy TV, magazines, and newspapers. We now know (as if it weren’t obvious from the start) that that manipulation was at the behest of government functionaries whose stated agenda was to manipulate public opinion!
.....NGT, is one of THE most scientifically-illiterate creatures on Earth (as REPEATEDLY demonstrated for YEARS, made institutionally UNable to effectively contextualize NEW evidence) and REGARDLESS whether HE responded intelligently, had I been provided an opportunity, would've torn his rationales to PIECES - for MOST issues with modern-disease states, DO have UNMISTAKABLE macrocosmic ANALOGS in.....ASTROphysics as WELL, relative to multiversal (I'm definitely not a FAN of the more-INarticulating term 'dimension'; BADLY misused TOO long already) resonant informational effects (have come to realize with these past several months, that those at the so-called 'quantum' - how I now HATE that WORD - scale, MUST be increasingly-reduced HARMONIC expressions of same predicated by distribution of medial densities; their uniformity).....so VERY glad I followed my STRONG instincts to NOT watch this past Thursday - or, MIGHT be NEEDING another PC monitor today.....
I tuned out when he came on. Popped into chat a could times to drop Dr David Martin's prosecutenow.io website and Dr Richard Fleming's flemingmethod.com 10 Letters website to share the documents you can send to all Governors, Attorney Generals, and local County Prosecutors. Also posted one of Billy Goat Gates favorite book titles "How To Lie With Statistics," as a direct suggestion for NGT.
This was hard to watch. It's hard to see someone so smart be so blinded and downright ignorant. Is it willful? Is it not? Is he getting paid? It's disorienting.
My guess is he is blinded by his political beliefs. 🫣
Del was right to bring him on, but his arguments were very unimpressive especially repeating “consensus”. He just came off as a sell out to me. He could understand the issue but chose not to because it wouldn’t help his career.
Excellent! Very much needed clarification and emphasis! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you for this commentary. It was difficult to "hear" the things that he was saying as they at times conflicted with logic.
The consensus is clear: Tyson is a hack.
It was difficult to watch. He continued to deflect responsibility; yet he went public parroting the narrative....based on his false belief that other "consensus scientists" had done the research. And that the data was clear and unbiased. That is religious or ideological belief if I ever heard one.
That argument is especially invalidated by the manipulation of public opinion carried out by social media, publishing platforms, and legacy TV, magazines, and newspapers. We now know (as if it weren’t obvious from the start) that that manipulation was at the behest of government functionaries whose stated agenda was to manipulate public opinion!
.....NGT, is one of THE most scientifically-illiterate creatures on Earth (as REPEATEDLY demonstrated for YEARS, made institutionally UNable to effectively contextualize NEW evidence) and REGARDLESS whether HE responded intelligently, had I been provided an opportunity, would've torn his rationales to PIECES - for MOST issues with modern-disease states, DO have UNMISTAKABLE macrocosmic ANALOGS in.....ASTROphysics as WELL, relative to multiversal (I'm definitely not a FAN of the more-INarticulating term 'dimension'; BADLY misused TOO long already) resonant informational effects (have come to realize with these past several months, that those at the so-called 'quantum' - how I now HATE that WORD - scale, MUST be increasingly-reduced HARMONIC expressions of same predicated by distribution of medial densities; their uniformity).....so VERY glad I followed my STRONG instincts to NOT watch this past Thursday - or, MIGHT be NEEDING another PC monitor today.....
Neil defraud Tyson.......after seeing him on the Dave bet podcast I lost all respect for him. Another self serving egotistical hack.
Astrophysics consensus is extremely dubious... Dark matter is modern day phlogiston... So this isn't that surprising unfortunately
"Science in astrophysics requires far more reliance on untested induction for longer periods of time than research in medicine and in biology."
How true!! Neil is a shallow thinker, but it pays better in this world, unfortunately.
Science communicators are a useful tool, similar to what fact checkers have become.
Truly strange times.
I tuned out when he came on. Popped into chat a could times to drop Dr David Martin's prosecutenow.io website and Dr Richard Fleming's flemingmethod.com 10 Letters website to share the documents you can send to all Governors, Attorney Generals, and local County Prosecutors. Also posted one of Billy Goat Gates favorite book titles "How To Lie With Statistics," as a direct suggestion for NGT.
This was hard to watch. It's hard to see someone so smart be so blinded and downright ignorant. Is it willful? Is it not? Is he getting paid? It's disorienting.
A few months ago I sent a message to NDT letting him know he’d lost my respect.