Posted on 12/17/2014 7:12:46 AM PST by PROCON
I’ve never been a fan of Bill Nye “the Science Guy.” Partly it’s because I’m from a different generation. I grew up with Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan as my introduction to science, and Nye always struck me as a cheap substitute. I find something condescending in his hyperkinetic manner, as if science couldn’t actually be interesting and exciting in its own right, as if it could only be interesting if the guy trying to explain it to us is bouncing off the walls. It all seems like Science for People with Attention Deficit Disorder. So you get travesties like Bill Nye supposedly explaining evolution using emojis. It’s as dumb as it sounds, which is a shame given how important the theory of evolution is.
All of that is harmless enough, I suppose—more a waste of an opportunity than any active kind of evil. If not for the fact that the “science guy” is out undermining the basic creed of science.
Nye has joined with 47 “scientists, science writers, and other experts” who issued a statement “taking the media to task for using the phrase ‘climate skeptic,’ saying that the word ‘denier’ is more accurate.” From their statement:
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
He used to show children how to simulate a volcano eruption with baking soda and vinegar.
And now he's a preeminent climate change expert?
bill nye has always struck me as the pee-wee herman of science.
“Nye has joined with 47 “scientists, science writers, and other experts” ...”
Nye is an actor. An entertainer, a comedian.
Derangement from reality.
All these natural wonders were either carved out by advancing and retreating glaciers over tens of thousands of years or were under a mile of ice.
So stick that in your Bunsen burner and smoke it.
I miss Mr. Wizard.
If I recall my early sciences classes, true scientists would never declare any aspect of science as settled, nor would they ever use the word “denier” to describe those who challenge their theories.
Nye & his ilk are nothing but propagandists.
“bill nye has always struck me as the pee-wee herman of science.”
Now, you have insulted poor little pee-wee Herman.
Isn’t Nye a mechanical engineer?
i guess i’ll have to live with that collateral damage.
Ah, they disagree with the term “skeptic” and would choose instead to equate people who disagree with them with the loaded term “denier”, as in “holocaust denier”.
I would be a lot of money that they would excuse any “Palestinian” that was an ACTUAL “denier” of the holocaust.
I’m a fan of Professor Proton.
If you knew anything about vulcanology, you’d know that a volcanic eruption occurs when vinegar rises from deep within the Earth’s mantle and reacts with baking soda in the crust.
But I guess that you’re one of those deniers!
Nye would fail even the most elementary of questions concerning the actual physics of CO2 and its interaction with electromagnetic waves.
For that matter, it would appear that a good deal of the so-called “climate researchers” would also.
I liked Mr. Wizard.
But these days if you don’t believe that Bill Nye is actually a scientist and not an entertainer, they you are considered anti-science.
Engineers aren’t scientists. Ask Sheldon.
Bill Nye, The Junk Science Guy
I know. I don’t have to look any farther for an engineer to ask than my husband!
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