Posted on 12/27/2015 1:39:12 AM PST by Rummyfan
Neil deGrasse Tyson made the decision a long time ago to be a sort of media cheerleader for science instead of an actual scientist, and although he isn’t a great communicator, it was the right decision because he was unlikely ever to trouble the Nobel committee. Also, he is stupid and his politics are dumb.
Tyson, whom liberals love because they are racists who can’t believe a black guy could be smart enough to be a scientist and so spontaneously ejaculate and soil themselves every time they see him on TV, hasn’t published anything of note for years. The advantage of being a celebrity scientist is that you don’t actually have to do any science. You’re exempted from the usual “publish or perish†rules.
Even when he was making a go of being a proper academic, Tyson didn’t exactly have the most glittering record. He didn’t get the PhD he was studying for at the University of Texas and had to go elsewhere for his qualification. Obviously, rather than take responsibility for his academic performance, Tyson has blamed racism. In reality, Tyson was playing in bands and appearing on stage instead of completing essays. Typical science PhD students are at any given time either studying, teaching or sleeping.
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because its not "publish or perish" in science, and academia anymore...
its really "publicity or perish"...
you don't have to be on note by contributing something original of substance ....
You just have to be of note for something, anything... ...
these days it's usually being note for nothing of any real substance... you don't need talent.... you just need to be a celebrity.. be a member of the noisy PC squeaky wheel class
‘Im waiting to enter a country because there are invisible lines somebody drew a long time ago.”
cool I’ll use that logice next time I visit his office or house...
It sad what the word “science” has become... science is a methodology for understanding, of discovering truth ...as the objection was finding “truth”....
now science it not the methodology, or seeking the truth, with a method of discovers........it regurgitation of things that you were told without understanding
science is method of discovering data, connecting the dots or point of data of with reason and rational understanding... all in the goal of seeking what was reality and true....
now “science” is it regurgitating a “line” in public without any necessary understanding... unthinking, unquestioning...
what science tells you used to open minds to greater thoughts and questions... and now is used to close down independent thought and questions
you no longer ask questions,.you stop thinking, when you think you know all the answers....
true wisdom is knowing you know nothing (at least in the overall scheme of things)
At my school, if you passed the PhD qualifer exam, you also got the masters and continued on. If you failed it, as long as your classes were good enough you got the masters and left in short order.
Penny: So that means you’re a doctor, you’re a doctor, you’re a doctor, you’re a doctor and, drbuzzard, you know a lot of doctors.
I skipped the qual exams and went straight for the PhD.
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