Neil deGrasse Tyson: Troll of the Year

real clear Politics ^ | 1-4-15 | Carl Cannon

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That’s quite a story: completely wrong in all of its particulars and in its larger point. Tyson mangles Genesis and misquotes Bush, not once but twice. He puts Bush’s (misquoted) comment in the wrong year and the wrong context. It actually comes from one of the most poignant speeches of his presidency. Bush was not talking not 9/11; he was eulogizing the seven astronauts who lost their lives on the space shuttle Columbia — a subject that Tyson supposedly cares about. And Bush never said “Our God.” He said: “The same Creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today.”

As for Tyson’s statement “Allah of the Muslims is the same God as the God of the Old Testament,” that’s theology, not science. It may or may not be good theology, but it was George W. Bush who said this before Neil Tyson — and he took heat from some evangelicals for it. Also, it was Bush, not Tyson, who went around proclaiming Islam to be a “religion of peace” after 9/11. In other words, the moral of Tyson’s snarky little story is the exact opposite of what really happened. It’s a lie, or rather a series of lies, on a scale rare even for Washington.

When called on his prevarications by The Federalist, Tyson dissembled for months, accused his critics of “eavesdropping,” and called on his acolytes to find the quote for him — crowd-sourcing his research, after the fact. An odd example of the scientific method, one might say. When all that failed, his minions scrubbed the controversy from Wikipedia and plotted how to remove The Federalist from Wikipedia as well.

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[Organic Panic]

I pay little attention to misanthropes. There were some NOVA episodes where he was enjoyable. Then, I kept seeing his smug arrogant face on every show and then finally watched the first episode of Cosmos’ reboot. Terrible. I shut it down when he said “In jail of course” when he implied the only reason Giordano Bruno was in jail was because he suggested the sun is the center of the universe. Which is false.

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Better to be a half-right wit than a right half-wit, what I say...