This discussion on reddit. NGDT is doubling down on scientism here, not actual science. Science does not (cannot, in fact) "discover truth" or "show us reality." #Science is amazing, but this is not why.
People who say things like this are probably the ones who get mad when you point out that #Obama and #Hillary ramped up the security state and killed a shitload of innocent people with drones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/67675m/neil_degrasse_tyson_science_deniers_in_power_are/
@SuzanEraslan Exactly. This is a big problem. He's also on record many times being disdainful or outright dismissive of the validity of any science that isn't in his mental club of valid sciences. I don't know that he's a very good ambassador for science to the world.
@tomstearns The thing is, he's got a very sonorous voice and a good sense of humor in interviews, so he's a great ambassador for *astronomy* but not for Science, Writ Large. There's more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in his philosophy, as Hamlet would say. 😉
@tomstearns Tyson's tone lately smacks of the condescension of latter day Hitchens and co. and makes me extremely distrustful of him, particularly since his Mayan/2012 comments for which he never apologized. His weltanschauung is as narrow and fundamentalist as those he mocks for being anti-science.