[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

A Freeper kept insisting to me that Bill Nye is a scientist. There’s the problem in a nutshell.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“A Freeper kept insisting to me that Bill Nye is a scientist. There’s the problem in a nutshell.”

IMO a scientist is someone who is trained in the scientific method and uses it to answer questions. If you dont use the scientific method you are not a scientist, even if you have advanced degrees from prestigious universities. If you use the method you are a scientist even if you never attended school. I dont know if BN is a scientist or not.

[skinkinthegrass]

Bill Nye is a scientist.
More absolute B$
(Barbara $trei$and)
If anything, He's Presenter/
Bubbled-headed Announcer.

[BroJoeK]

Ethan Clive Osgoode: "A Freeper kept insisting to me that Bill Nye is a scientist.
There’s the problem in a nutshell."

definition of "scientist":

"1.A person who is engaged in and has expert knowledge of a science, especially a biological or physical science."

definition of "physical science":

"1.Any of the sciences, such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, and geology, that analyze the nature and properties of energy and nonliving matter."

definition of "scientific method":

"1.The principles and empirical processes of discovery and demonstration considered characteristic of or necessary for scientific investigation, generally involving
1. the observation of phenomena,
2. the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena,
3. experimentation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and
4. a conclusion that validates or modifies the hypothesis."

So Bill Nye the Science Guy clearly qualifies as a "scientist".
Of course, not every word ever uttered by Nye qualifies as "scientific".