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Posted on 02/12/2015 7:46:22 AM PST by fishtank
Censor of the Year: Neil deGrasse Tyson Broadcast His Photoshopped Narrative of Science to Millions
David Klinghoffer
February 12, 2015 2:58 AM | Permalink
Today is Darwin Day, celebrated by us as Academic Freedom Day. That means it's time to announce the winner of this year's Censor of the Year Award. As you already know from the headline, our recipient is Neil deGrasse Tyson.
COTY, as it's called for short, recognizes achievement in thwarting an open and informed discussion of science and scientific controversies. It is a serious thing -- since censorship is serious and often but not always casting fear on less powerful individuals whose ideas the censor doesn't like. That was the case with last year's winner, biologist Jerry Coyne, who with his partners at the Freedom from Religion Foundation was successful in silencing a young physics professor who dared to provide students with information about intelligent design.
There's an element of fun in COTY as well. But this year, less so. It happens that the names of a couple of our leading nominees have come up in a story near the top of the news as I write, in a most tragic manner. A militant atheist in Chapel Hill, NC, is accused of murdering three Muslim students. Since the triple slaying is potentially explosive in an international context, social and other media are abuzz with analysis of the man's views on religion. Those are indicated on his Facebook page by, among other things including a variety of agitated posts, his admiration for the Freedom from Religion Foundation and for Dr. Tyson.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson — one of his biggest fans is accused of killing three college students over a parking space.
"But he was in my spot."
One accidentally self-aware bag of protoplasm deactivating three other accidentally self-aware bags of protoplasm. Nothing to see here... Move along...
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