I never liked Tyson. I’ve always thought he was an over hyped drama queen.
DRAMA QUEEN...kinda like out current presidente’.
That no longer seems to be a matter of your opinion. That is OBVIOUSLY a fact. His little straw-man stories and attribution of false quotes are right out of the playbook of modern politicians and demagogues(I know I'm being redundant here). Particularly those of the liberal variety.
They do this, because they know full well that they'll ALWAYS get away with it due to a lapdog MSM and websites such as Wikipedia, ect. It goes all the way to the President. A key part of 0bama's talking points is through the use of straw-men arguments. If HE can do it and get a pass from the media, anyone can. Thirty years ago, these people would have gotten away with this stuff COMPLETELY, as there were no truth tellers out there to call them on their straw-man bullshit, and false quotes.
There are much better scientists who don’t go out of their way to be overtly hostile to religion.
You and I are in perfect agreement on that one. I only recently became aware of the existence of Tyson and it took only a few minutes to get that feeling you describe about his being a drama queen. I confess that I gave myself a hard time about it, thinking that I must be judging him unfairly but I have been unable to change my opinion of him except to lower it.
I have finally concluded that he is the classic example of someone who is totally in love with the person he imagines himself to be while constantly struggling with the nagging suspicion that, well, maybe I ain’t really all that much. There is something that psychologists call IIRC, “the imposter phenomenon” in which a person who has risen to a level of success greater than he imagined in his earlier years and is constantly nagged by the suspicion that someone will “find him out” and he will fall back to the level he secretly believes he deserves.
I had, for a long time, a much higher opinion of Michio Kaku but he is falling in my estimation at this point. I think “science” programs on TV attract a lot of viewers who lack the intellectual depth to realize that they actually do NOT understand what their hero is saying. “String theory” is interesting to think about but anyone who thinks he really understands that is either far, far above my level or is just not smart enough to realize that he is fooling himself and I do know that I am NOT the dullest knife in the drawer even though I am far, far from being the new Leonardo. It has taken me seventy years to realize the truth of the line that, “anything is possible” while understanding that “anything” also includes the possibility that the “expert” or “scientist” presenting his views is just as nutty as the guy down the street.