There Is No Such Thing As "Science".....

[PoliticalChic]

.....any longer.

In a recent OP (If You Have Learned Anything At All.....) I wrote about the editor of Scientific American having to resign after a vulgarity-laced rant about the Rigth.
I used it to point out that the Marxists/Democrats have destroyed any legitimacy the magazine, and, actually, science had (the Covid Scam to shut the economy to thwart Trump)>



Now, Bill Maher had Neil deGrasse Tyson on his show and ripped him a new one, holding him up as an example of what I said about 'science.'



"As my esteemed colleague Chris Queen noted a few days ago, the editor of Scientific American — formerly a respected, apolitical scientific journal that’s been in publication since 1845 — resigned in disgrace after launching a vulgar, profanity-laced diatribe against Trump voters. Under her watch, Scientific American magazine, which had NEVER made a presidential endorsement before (because, as a scientific journal, why would they?), made their first two: In 2020 (for Joe Biden) and in 2024 (for Kamala Harris).


But apologists like Neil DeGrasse Tyson don’t think it’s a big deal.

Think about that contradiction: Tyson has dedicated himself to educating people about science! He’s not a celebrity because of his academic work; solely on the basis of his academic work, he’s not a particularly remarkable scientist. Schoolchildren certainly won’t be reading biographies about him in 50 years. Instead, it’s his work as a “science popularizer” in media that’s earned him his fame, wealth, and oodles of royalties.

Yet somehow, he’s oblivious to the perceptual dangers of Scientific American magazine adopting an anti-Trump partisan stance? Or reappropriating the credibility of “science” to promote partisan political views? Or for their editor to accuse half the country of being fascists?!"

Bill Maher Beclowns Neil deGrasse Tyson on Scientific Bias: You Are ‘Part of the Problem’

pjmedia.com

Wake the heck up, Democrat voters.......it's a disease and you have been infected.

 

[toobfreak]

There Is No Such Thing As "Science"..........any longer.​

Science is merely the religion of the agnostic elites.

But apologists like Neil DeGrasse Tyson don’t think it’s a big deal.

What can you expect from a planetarium director flunky who stole Pluto?!

 

[Oddball]

Science is merely the religion of the agnostic elites.


What can you expect from a planetarium director flunky who stole Pluto?!

I'm agnostic as they come, and recognize that there's a significant body of science that leads us back to spirituality.

Tyson is a stone atheist, who seems to worship this tiny realm of the infinitesimally small bandwidths of light and sound, that we can see and hear.

 

[Arlette]

I'm agnostic as they come, and recognize that there's a significant body of science that leads us back to spirituality.

Tyson is a stone atheist, who seems to worship this tiny realm of the infinitesimally small bandwidths of light and sound, that we can see and hear.

Are you agnostic about wood fairies and unicorns?

 

[toobfreak]

I'm agnostic as they come, and recognize that there's a significant body of science that leads us back to spirituality.

So was I until I had a profound realization that connected the precepts of science with the inevitable fact that what Science was slowly discovering, unraveling and increasingly better describing in the phenomenal world, detail by detail, was in fact, God, even if they still fall short yet of calling it that.

Tyson is a stone atheist, who seems to worship this tiny realm of the infinitesimally small bandwidths of light and sound, that we can see and hear.

I kid about Tyson, but the reality is that he was a big fan of Sagan's as a kid, grew up wanting to be like him and teach science as he did, but Neil falls way short of filling Carl's shoes as an educator because he simply lacks the breadth and depth of Sagan's understanding.

 

[Oddball]

So was I until I had a profound realization that connected the precepts of science with the inevitable fact that what Science was slowly discovering, unraveling and increasingly better describing in the phenomenal world, detail by detail, was in fact, God, even if they still fall short yet of calling it that.

"Agnostic" doesn't mean that I don't believe that there's an intelligence behind all this and a creator.

I kid about Tyson, but the reality is that he was a big fan of Sagan's as a kid, grew up wanting to be like him and teach science as he did, but Neil falls way short of filling Carl's shoes as an educator because he simply lacks the breadth and depth of Sagan's understanding.

I lost all interest in and time for Tyson when he made a total abortion out of the Cosmos reboot....I remember watching the original...It was the first time I ever anticipated anything PBS had to offer.

 

[toobfreak]

"Agnostic" doesn't mean that I don't believe that there's an intelligence behind all this and a creator.

It seems pretty clear to me that you don't get intelligence from a rock. And that you get finite intelligence (ours) from a more infinite intelligence, just as a glass of water comes from the ocean, not the other way around.

I lost all interest in and time for Tyson when he made a total abortion out of the Cosmos reboot....I remember watching the original...It was the first time I ever anticipated anything PBS had to offer.

Well, I have the original and I have Tyson's version (done with Sagan's wife's blessings and assistance). I did not like the reboot at first but I softened on it after watching it a second time. It has its moments, but obviously, the original Cosmos was a masterpiece, and no one will ever equal nor surpass it. I even have Cosmos in the hardback book version.

The original Cosmos laid out systematically the entire world of science from a historical perspective from its foundations to its epic conclusions for the future. Tyson's reboot failed to do that (perhaps deliberately so not to copy it) and was much more fragmented with no clear message nor goal from installation to installation. But it had many good moments.

 

[Crepitus]

Science is merely the religion of the agnostic elites.


What can you expect from a planetarium director flunky who stole Pluto?!

Oh look, a flat earther.

 

[boevans]

What a Karen.

Tell that to Roger Bacon. And Francis Bacon. And Isaac Newton.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Science is merely the religion of the agnostic elites.


What can you expect from a planetarium director flunky who stole Pluto?!

But it is not just Tyson.

No 'scientist,' bureaucrat, or politician should be given an credence out of hand.

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1. A perennial mistake that folks make is awarding an undeserved objectivity, trustworthiness and/or knowledge in some realm totally distinct from that one in which someone gained celebrity status.
Nowhere is this more evident that that awarded to politicians, economists, bureaucrats, and weathermen. But awarding same to those nominally known as ‘scientists’ is surely a close second. Biases, preferences, politics and credit card debt all enter ‘scientist’s’ claims as do they any average citizen.

The mistake most make is imputing an honor and knowledge to celebrities which is undeserved.

2. Which brings me to today's birthday boy:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astronomer
Neil deGrasse Tyson, (born October 5, 1958, New York, New York, U.S.), American astronomer who popularized science with his books and frequent appearances on radio and television."
Britannica.com

3. Give the man his due.....it's in astronomy. But when he writes the following for the Hayden Planetarium, he starts going off the rails:

"Reflections on the Color of My Skin"

Neil deGrasse Tyson​

www.haydenplanetarium.org

One must be a Democrat to believe that race or gender are the most defining characteristics in life.




4. Another perspective on our pal, Neil:

"Another Day, Another Quote Fabricated By Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson may be a fabulous scientist, and a consummate showman, but he’s downright terrible at accurately quoting people. Or, if you’re a “glass half full” kind of person, you might say that Neil deGrasse Tyson is pretty amazing at needlessly fabricating quotes and scenarios to showcase his own brilliance.


5. ... a newspaper headline touted for years by Tyson likely doesn’t exist. .... the exact quote he uses to bash members of Congress as being stupid also doesn’t exist. .... the details within one of Tyson’s favorite anecdotes — a story of how he bravely confronted a judge about his mathematical illiteracy while serving on jury duty — seem to change every time Tyson tells the story.
In addition to those two highly questionable quotes and one highly questionable story, we now have another blatantly false quote peddled by Tyson. He has peddled this quote for years (including at a presentation on Sunday night at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle).

According to Tyson, in the days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Bush uttered the phrase, “Our God is the God who named the stars.” According to Tyson, the president made that claim as a way of segregating radical Islam from religions like Christianity or Judaism. Here’s Tyson:





6. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s story has three central claims: 1) Bush uttered that precise phrase, 2) in the days immediately after 9/11, 3) in order to distance American religion from that practiced by radical Muslims.

As you have probably already guessed, every single claim is false. Every one! Then there’s Tyson’s aside that Bush’s quote was a “loose quote” of the book of Genesis. Yep, that’s false, too. Add embarrassing biblical illiteracy to Tyson’s list of accomplishments on his CV."

Another Day, Another Quote Fabricated By Neil deGrasse Tyson​

No, George W. Bush did not say "Our God is the God who named the stars" just days after 9/11. Are any quotes peddled by Neil deGrasse Tyson actually real?

thefederalist.com

 

[PoliticalChic]

What a Karen.

Tell that to Roger Bacon. And Francis Bacon. And Isaac Newton.

They weren't Marxist/Democrats.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Concerning settled science, when has it ever been settled? It is as fragile as the next discovery. If we settled science with Einstein, we would never have known about 10 dimensions, 4 known, 6 unknown. < 6 more discoveries in waiting.

The more we discover, the closer we get to an intelligent superstar. Who calls us, His children.

 

[PoliticalChic]

What a Karen.

Tell that to Roger Bacon. And Francis Bacon. And Isaac Newton.

....cultural Marxists, have taken over nearly every avenue of the dissemination of information.


This is the problem when totalitarians take control.

1. In the Soviet Union, science gave up its mission.....the collection of provable knowledge.....at the point of a gun. Under the other socialist entity, the Nazis, the same produced all sorts of 'knowledge' about Jews and other undesirables.
No guns were necessary here.




2. Those of us who don't vote Democrat recognized the facts long ago. This was a 2021 Scientific American

3. "This is the real cover, which reads like a joke....
offers the following gems, all straight from the world of Critical Race Theory, the most racist concept to hit America since the KKK was kicked to the basement:

• From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
• How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
• We'll Never Fix Systemic Racism by Being Polite
• How to Unlearn Racism
• How to Think about 'Implicit Bias'
• The Flexibility of Racial Bias
• Bias Detectives
• Microaggressions: Death by a Thousand Cuts
• George Floyd's Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America (an article that required 12 people to fill the byline)
• The Brilliance Paradox: What Really Keeps Women and Minorities from Excelling in Academia
• Inequality before Birth Contributes to Health Inequality in Adults
• The Harm That Data Do
• Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19
• We Learned the Wrong Lessons from the Tuskegee 'Experiment'
• To Prevent Women from Dying in Childbirth, First Stop Blaming Them
• The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
• A Civil Rights Expert Explains the Social Science of Police Racism
• White Chicago Cops Use Force More Often Than Black Officers
• Police Violence Calls for Measures beyond De-escalation Training
• How Economic Inequality Harms the Environment
• People of Color Breathe More Unhealthy Air from Nearly All Polluting Sources
• Solar Power's Benefits Don't Shine Equally on Everyone
• The Case for Antiracism
• Implicit Biases toward Race and Sexuality Have Decreased
• We Must Confront Anti-Asian Racism in Science
• Take Racism Out of Medical Algorithms
• Clinical Trials Have Far Too Little Racial and Ethnic Diversity
• Three Ways to Fix Toxic Policing
• What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases
• Racism and Sexism in Science Haven't Disappeared

 

[PoliticalChic]

I'm agnostic as they come, and recognize that there's a significant body of science that leads us back to spirituality.

Tyson is a stone atheist, who seems to worship this tiny realm of the infinitesimally small bandwidths of light and sound, that we can see and hear.

The Left’s claim is that advances in science have proven religion nothing but superstition. Of course this is simply one more of the Left’s lies. The two, have actually converged, rather than diverged. And it is science that has moved closer to the other. (I believe Berlinski said that)

Dennis Prager writes: “In my lifetime alone, science went from positing a universe that always existed to positing a universe that had a beginning (the Big Bang). So, in just one generation [the Bible], in describing a beginning to the universe, went from conflicting with science to agreeing with science….[The Bible] should not violate essential truths (for example, it accurately depicts human beings as the last creation).”



“Francis S. Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project, discussed why he believes religion and science are compatible and why the current conflict over evolution vs. faith, particularly in the evangelical community, is unnecessary. Collins, an evangelical Christian, talked about his path from atheism to Christianity and his belief that science provides evidence of God. He cited the Big Bang theory and the fact that the universe had a beginning out of nothing. He added that the laws of physics have precisely the values needed for life to occur on earth and argued that would seem to point to a creator.” Religion and Science: Conflict or Harmony?



“Today, 40% of all scientists believe in a personal God! Theology and science are closer together than in the past several centuries.”

The Universe Knew We Were Coming - Leadership Coaching Network​

Science is opening up the mystery of God as never before.

www.rich-hansen.com

 

[toobfreak]

But it is not just Tyson.
No 'scientist,' bureaucrat, or politician should be given an credence out of hand.

I don't mind Tyson, he wants to bring science to the masses.
But to me, a real scientist is someone like Fritz Zwicky who was a brilliant man no one ever heard of proven right about his theories long after his death,
whereas Neil wants public notoriety and name recognition before he accomplishes anything.

 

[boevans]

They weren't Marxist/Democrats.

Don't be stupid, Karen.

 

[toobfreak]

Science is opening up the mystery of God as never before.

Actually, 3,000 years before Christ was born and 5,000 years before western man labeled it, religion was describing the atom as the building block of the universe.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I don't mind Tyson, he wants to bring science to the masses.
But to me, a real scientist is someone like Fritz Zwicky who was a brilliant man no one ever heard of proven right about his theories long after his death,
whereas Neil wants public notoriety and name recognition before he accomplishes anything.

I mind him.

He's a liar and a supporter of the Marxist Democrats.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Don't be stupid, Karen.

They are, and you are.
Americans have had enough of your sort.
Did you notice the election?

 

[boevans]

The 4th lowest EC margin since 1828. A popularity, not a majority. I think Trump will get some of what he wants, but maybe not half? If the economy blows up, the GOP is dead in 2026.