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Tyson is a good guy and has made significant contributions to science.  



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That's pretty standard stuff for a PhD and is matched by your average doctorate professor at a research university.  I don't know much about the guy, but I've heard people who follow such things say that his actual contributions outside of being a celebrity are pretty modest.  A sharp guy, to be sure, but we're not talking about a black Hawking here.
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Discounting the claims of creationism as being a ridiculous pseudo science is bias?  


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Or those who are defending him are so vested in what he says they remain blind by their own bias behavior. See below quote from you which aptly shows such bias behavior.
Discounting the claims of creationism as being a ridiculous pseudo science is bias?  



That's what this is really about Tyson pokes holes in people's irrational beliefs so his misremembering some comment George Bush probably did not make is blown up to "He's Da Debil"
Perhaps in the field of Law making up citations is par for the course, but scientists take that rather seriously.    


 



Whoops accusing me of lying now, lol.
No, I just don't don't understand your disregard for this sort of behavior.

 
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That's pretty standard stuff for a PhD and is matched by your average doctorate professor at a research university.  I don't know much about the guy, but I've heard people who follow such things say that his actual contributions outside of being a celebrity are pretty modest.  A sharp guy, to be sure, but we're not talking about a black Hawking here.
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That's pretty standard stuff for a PhD and is matched by your average doctorate professor at a research university.  I don't know much about the guy, but I've heard people who follow such things say that his actual contributions outside of being a celebrity are pretty modest.  A sharp guy, to be sure, but we're not talking about a black Hawking here.
To be fair, the field needs "popularizers" as well.  Not everyone in science is going to be a Newton, nor is that the only type of person the field needs.

 
Link Posted: 9/22/2014 6:13:28 PM EDT
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Who th hell is this guy? Everyone else here seems to know but me. Why do we care about him?
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Hell of a singer.

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Celebrity scientist who apparently makes things up to make politicians look stupid while making himself look smart.

 
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See the main issue isn't that he was mistaken, or remembered something wrong. By his own admission he falsifies the content of his anecdotes. If someone is willing to lie about something when it doesn't matter, what is someone willing to lie about when it does matter.
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Didn't know there were such things!
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That's pretty standard stuff for a PhD and is matched by your average doctorate professor at a research university.  I don't know much about the guy, but I've heard people who follow such things say that his actual contributions outside of being a celebrity are pretty modest.  A sharp guy, to be sure, but we're not talking about a black Hawking here.
To be fair, the field needs "popularizers" as well.  Not everyone in science is going to be a Newton, nor is that the only type of person the field needs.  


Absolutely; that's why I specified contributions outside of being a celebrity.  HIs contributions as a celebrity/frontman are very real.
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I care about none of those things.  I care about a public figurehead for science who perhaps can't be bothered to not make up presidential quotes to suit his point.  
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I wonder if the arfcom butt-hurt/outrage would be so strong if he was misquoting Obama?
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Tyson is a glorified science teacher.  The only reason we know his name is because he's black.
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Didn't know there were such things!
Yeah, dude has a shitload of internet memes, and he's on TV.

 
Link Posted: 9/22/2014 6:20:33 PM EDT
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That and the badass meme.
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Like I said, people remember stuff wrong all the time, sounds like he misremembered Bush's comment after the space shuttle disaster. I don't think he proves anything other than he's careless in recounting stories, like most people are. If he keeps telling the same story after this was pointed out I think it might mean he was being a prick. Again, if this is all the dirt they could dig up on him it seems like he's more credible than most people.  


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No, I just don't don't understand your disregard for this sort of behavior.  
Like I said, people remember stuff wrong all the time, sounds like he misremembered Bush's comment after the space shuttle disaster. I don't think he proves anything other than he's careless in recounting stories, like most people are. If he keeps telling the same story after this was pointed out I think it might mean he was being a prick. Again, if this is all the dirt they could dig up on him it seems like he's more credible than most people.  





As an undergraduate I would have been reamed if I gave a talk with unvetted sources or bad citations.  One doesn't "remember" citations, one looks them up; this is especially easy in the age of Google.  



This wasn't an off the cuff remark, it was a prepared talk that he gave.  
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That's pretty standard stuff for a PhD and is matched by your average doctorate professor at a research university.  I don't know much about the guy, but I've heard people who follow such things say that his actual contributions outside of being a celebrity are pretty modest.  A sharp guy, to be sure, but we're not talking about a black Hawking here.
To be fair, the field needs "popularizers" as well.  Not everyone in science is going to be a Newton, nor is that the only type of person the field needs.  






Absolutely; that's why I specified contributions outside of being a celebrity.  HIs contributions as a celebrity/frontman are very real.
Missed that.  My mistake.

 
 
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Celebrity scientist who apparently makes things up to make politicians look stupid while making himself look smart.  


Didn't know there were such things!
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I figured he was more tv host then a real scientist.
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Didn't know there were such things!
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Or, you know, Einstein, or Feynman, or Hawking. It's kind of an old thing...

 
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Fixed.

Good link on all of his lies.

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Wouldn't think a prominent atheo-scientific icon like NDT would need to 'tune contents' to suit his 'audience'.
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This is really a big pile of bullshit.  News Flash...science tends to dislike colorful statements often made from politicians.  Tyson is a good guy and has made significant contributions to science.  


Except that the point of the claims are that the politicians did not, in fact, make those colorful statements...Tyson seems to have made them up.  

I would don't expect a higher any level of respect for veracity from a prominent physicist atheist.


Fixed.

Good link on all of his lies.

Tyson's lame explanation:

When I am invited to give a talk, especially to an audience that is not the general public, but to a specific gathering of people within a trade, I tune the contents for that audience, for that time, and for that place. So tone and flavor and context and intent are all key elements to any message I convey — all missing to anyone who was not present at the time.


Wouldn't think a prominent atheo-scientific icon like NDT would need to 'tune contents' to suit his 'audience'.


Sure sounds a lot like something a politician would do.

Glass houses and all that.
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Didn't know there were such things!



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It's a shame this guy is getting so infected with the liberal distortions.  He is a charismatic guy and has the talent and motivation make science appeal to young kids.
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Or, you know, Einstein, or Feynman, or Hawking. It's kind of an old thing...  
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Celebrity scientist who apparently makes things up to make politicians look stupid while making himself look smart.  


Didn't know there were such things!
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Or, you know, Einstein, or Feynman, or Hawking. It's kind of an old thing...  


Never thought of them as a celebrity. Just really smart people the General public knew about. Maybe I'm weird. Celebrities normally contribute very little to society.
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Didn't know there were such things!


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Cute possum!
Link Posted: 9/22/2014 6:29:21 PM EDT
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I don't know if this list constitutes 60% of named stars, but ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arabic_star_names
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Sure sounds a lot like something a politician would do.



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This is really a big pile of bullshit.  News Flash...science tends to dislike colorful statements often made from politicians.  Tyson is a good guy and has made significant contributions to science.  





Except that the point of the claims are that the politicians did not, in fact, make those colorful statements...Tyson seems to have made them up.  



I would don't expect a higher any level of respect for veracity from a prominent physicist atheist.





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Good link on all of his lies.



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When I am invited to give a talk, especially to an audience that is not the general public, but to a specific gathering of people within a trade, I tune the contents for that audience, for that time, and for that place. So tone and flavor and context and intent are all key elements to any message I convey — all missing to anyone who was not present at the time.




Wouldn't think a prominent atheo-scientific icon like NDT would need to 'tune contents' to suit his 'audience'.




Sure sounds a lot like something a politician would do.



Glass houses and all that
You think astrophysicists should give the same talks at international astrophysics meetings as they do to a bunch of non-astrophysicist undergraduates?  Children?



Why on Earth would you expect that?

 
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That and the badass meme.
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That and the badass meme.

And because he championed the removal of Pluto as a planet.
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Didn't know there were such things!

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Never thought of them as a celebrity. Just really smart people the General public knew about. Maybe I'm weird. Celebrities normally contribute very little to society.
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Never thought of them as a celebrity. Just really smart people the General public knew about. Maybe I'm weird. Celebrities normally contribute very little to society.
"Celebrity" is not necessarily synonymous with "worthless trailer-trash with a sex tape." Although there are a lot of those these days...

 
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Didn't know there were such things!

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You think astrophysicists should give the same talks at international astrophysics meetings as they do to a bunch of non-astrophysicist undergraduates?  Children?

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You think astrophysicists should give the same talks at international astrophysics meetings as they do to a bunch of non-astrophysicist undergraduates?  Children?

Why on Earth would you expect that?  

So you're saying it's all kosher to purposely misquote someone if *you* think it's better to convey *your* message? Then claim the context/tone/flavor of yours are being misrepresented when called out on the misquote?

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You think astrophysicists should give the same talk at international bikini model contests as they do to a bunch of nobel lauerate virgins? Gophers?

Why on Neptune would you expect that?


Yep. Totally the same. What? I misquoted you? No... I just tuned the message to better convey it, and you obviously didn't pick up on the context, tone and flavor of the message.
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So you're saying it's all kosher to purposely misquote someone if *you* think it's better to convey *your* message? Then claim the context/tone/flavor of yours are being misrepresented when called out on the misquote?



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Yep. Totally the same. What? I misquoted you? No... I just tuned the message to better convey it, and you obviously didn't pick up on the context, tone and flavor of the message.
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So you're saying it's all kosher to purposely misquote someone if *you* think it's better to convey *your* message? Then claim the context/tone/flavor of yours are being misrepresented when called out on the misquote?



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Why on Neptune would you expect that?




Yep. Totally the same. What? I misquoted you? No... I just tuned the message to better convey it, and you obviously didn't pick up on the context, tone and flavor of the message.
Have you read the thread at all?

 
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Like I said, people remember stuff wrong all the time, sounds like he misremembered Bush's comment after the space shuttle disaster. I don't think he proves anything other than he's careless in recounting stories, like most people are. If he keeps telling the same story after this was pointed out I think it might mean he was being a prick. Again, if this is all the dirt they could dig up on him it seems like he's more credible than most people.  


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No, I just don't don't understand your disregard for this sort of behavior.  
Like I said, people remember stuff wrong all the time, sounds like he misremembered Bush's comment after the space shuttle disaster. I don't think he proves anything other than he's careless in recounting stories, like most people are. If he keeps telling the same story after this was pointed out I think it might mean he was being a prick. Again, if this is all the dirt they could dig up on him it seems like he's more credible than most people.  





It wasn't simply "misremembered ". Bush's statement had nothing to do with Islam. This wasn't a mistake, it was a lie.
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Yes. But that is a direct answer to your claim that it's okay to misquote a person based on the audience. It's not a matter of omitting more advanced subject matter, it's falsifying the subject matter. That is not acceptable in any community, scientific or not.  Besides I improved your quote to being far more awesome.
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You think his goal is science? Look at this scene from his show Cosmos. It's sad because I used to actually like him.

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Seth Macfarlane was responsible for the animation. I personally hated all of the stupid animation in the new Cosmos series period, and not for any sort of anti-religious view. It was terrible and irritating to me and only detracted from the show.
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Yeah, they were celebrities, but that was based upon their contributions. Carl Sagan was more in line with Tyson.
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Yes. But that is a direct answer to your claim that it's okay to misquote a person based on the audience. It's not a matter of omitting more advanced subject matter, it's falsifying the subject matter. That is not acceptable in any community, scientific or not.  Besides I improved your quote to being far more awesome.
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Yes. But that is a direct answer to your claim that it's okay to misquote a person based on the audience. It's not a matter of omitting more advanced subject matter, it's falsifying the subject matter. That is not acceptable in any community, scientific or not.  Besides I improved your quote to being far more awesome.

I suspect you haven't.  



I said no such thing, and in fact have been railing against it the entire thread.  What my comment to you addressed is the notion that a talk should not be tailored to the audience.

 
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I said no such thing, and in fact have been railing against it the entire thread.  What my comment to you addressed is the notion that a talk should not be tailored to the audience.  
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Yes. But that is a direct answer to your claim that it's okay to misquote a person based on the audience. It's not a matter of omitting more advanced subject matter, it's falsifying the subject matter. That is not acceptable in any community, scientific or not.  Besides I improved your quote to being far more awesome.
I suspect you haven't.  

I said no such thing, and in fact have been railing against it the entire thread.  What my comment to you addressed is the notion that a talk should not be tailored to the audience.  

Nuh uh... Obviously you're tuning your content now because the context, flavor and timing are absent. (Please note, I'm using you as an example of why what Senior Tyson does, and why it's wrong).

Essentially he wants his cake (In this case to be able to take others quotes out of context, and 'tune them for content') and to eat it to, by claiming others can't do the same to him. He wants to remove context from quotes (thus creating the misquote) when it suits him, and when called on it, claims his context is vitally important.

Think of the same kind of idiocy that Jon Stewart does on the Daily show... "I'm making a joke, but you have to take me seriously!" "You can't take me seriously, I'm just making a joke!"

Can't have it both ways.
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Sure sounds a lot like something a politician would do.

Glass houses and all that
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Why on Earth would you expect that?  


I didn't say that. I don't care what he says in his speeches to whoever. but if your going to run around telling people made up stories to make yourself look smart, don't falsely accuse others of doing the same thing to make them look stupid.
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Did you read the fucking OP. He's a fucking liar and a climate change brainwashed douchetard
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This is really a big pile of bullshit.  News Flash...science tends to dislike colorful statements often made from politicians.  Tyson is a good guy and has made significant contributions to science.  


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He tries to wrap his personal agenda in the mantel of "science".  That at least makes him a bad scientist.


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Who th hell is this guy? Everyone else here seems to know but me. Why do we care about him?
Celebrity scientist who apparently makes things up to make politicians look stupid while making himself look smart.  


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Bill Nye is a celebrity, but I don't know any definition of the word "scientist" that he falls under.



Link Posted: 9/22/2014 7:16:51 PM EDT
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Bill Nye is a celebrity, but I don't know any definition of the word "scientist" that he falls under.



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Who th hell is this guy? Everyone else here seems to know but me. Why do we care about him?
Celebrity scientist who apparently makes things up to make politicians look stupid while making himself look smart.  


Didn't know there were such things!
http://www.greenvillegazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bill-Nye-screenshot.jpg
 





Bill Nye is a celebrity, but I don't know any definition of the word "scientist" that he falls under.





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Link Posted: 9/22/2014 7:22:35 PM EDT
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Or, you know, Einstein, or Feynman, or Hawking. It's kind of an old thing...  
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Who th hell is this guy? Everyone else here seems to know but me. Why do we care about him?
Celebrity scientist who apparently makes things up to make politicians look stupid while making himself look smart.  


Didn't know there were such things!
http://www.greenvillegazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bill-Nye-screenshot.jpg
 



Or, you know, Einstein, or Feynman, or Hawking. It's kind of an old thing...  


Einstein, Feynman, and Hawking have contributed far more than a celebrity scientist, even if all three had the unfortunate habit of veering wide out of their lane and expecting their opinions to be taken seriously.  Smart dudes.

Tyson hasn't contributed much, but he doesn't act as if he has.  His fame mostly stems from the internet circlejerk about him, which he has always seemed uncomfortable with.  Still, a smart dude.

Bill Nye is an engineer who taught a kid's show and now thinks he knows everything.  Douche.
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Most of the stars probably had names given to them by the Greeks, Romans and even by the Chaldeans long before the Arabs did...........

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I don't know if this list constitutes 60% of named stars, but ....
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Yeah, being a host of a popular science oriented TV show doesn't make you a scientist any more than being in Top Gun makes Tom Cruise a naval aviator.  

Nye actually has a undergrad degree in Mechanical Engineering, so he arguably is an engineer, but not a scientist.


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