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<\/a><\/p>\nby<\/span> MILO YIANNOPOULOS<\/p>\n Tyson, whom liberals love because they are racists who can\u2019t believe a black guy could be smart enough to be a scientist, hasn\u2019t published anything of note for years. The advantage of being a celebrity scientist is that you don\u2019t actually have to do any science. You\u2019re exempted from the usual \u201cpublish or perish\u201d rules.<\/p>\n Even when he was<\/em> making a go of being a proper academic, Tyson didn\u2019t exactly have the most glittering record. He didn\u2019t 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<\/a> instead of completing essays. Typical science PhD students are at any given time\u00a0either studying, teaching or sleeping.<\/p>\n It\u2019s tough to avoid the conclusion that much of what is frustrating about Neil deGrasse Tyson stems from identity politics and the victimhood ideology peddled by leftist academics and journalists. Despite all his media success,\u00a0Tyson insists\u00a0that\u00a0racism is responsible for his academic failures<\/a>,\u00a0alluding to sinister \u201cforces\u201d that keep women and ethnic minorities down.<\/p>\n In 2005, he said:\u00a0\u201cI know these forces are real and I had to survive them in order to get where I am today. So before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there\u2019s equal opportunity.\u201d\u00a0He of course doesn\u2019t address the fact that the only reason Neil deGrasse Tyson is on television at all, given his intellectual shortcomings, is that\u00a0he is black.<\/p>\n Perhaps realising how ridiculous he sounds, the world\u2019s most celebrated populariser of science has stopped talking about race in interviews and says he has never given an interview whose primary focus is race since 1993<\/a>.\u00a0Which is something, at least.<\/p>\n Social justice-inspired grievance culture has flavoured much of Tyson\u2019s output during his media career. Indeed, some observers say he\u2019s more left-wing propagandist than rigorous\u00a0thinker these days. His reboot of\u00a0Cosmos<\/em>, for instance, was saturated with progressive garbage designed to appeal to liberal-minded students and lefty geeks.<\/p>\n The problem is, every time Tyson plays to this crowd, he has to get his facts wrong to make the argument work. Take his gushing tribute to Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake. None of the details are correct.<\/a> Bruno wasn\u2019t a scientist: he was a cult leader who\u00a0dined out on wild conjecture and guesswork.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in\u00a0Cosmos<\/em>, Tyson makes other serious errors. I say \u201cerrors\u201d but for a man of his ostensible erudition you do have to wonder how these mistakes and bizarre claims keep creeping in. He says Venus is suffering from global warming<\/a>, for instance. And I think we can live without the televisual trope of space ships making sound in space \u2014 unless Tyson is claiming no more astrophysical literacy than an episode of Star Trek<\/i>.<\/p>\n Because he has given up on the scientific method in favour of progressive politics, Tyson has jettisoned fairness and fact in favour of slipperiness and propaganda: he is caught again and again repeating quotes that he appears to have simply made up, or which at a bare minimum are stripped of essential context or provenance. He shows no interest in correcting the record or addressing these mistakes<\/a> \u2014 we\u2019ll be diplomatic and call them mistakes \u2014 which does rather cast doubt on\u00a0his entire benevolent genius schtick, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n His Twitter feed, naturally, is packed to the gills with daft comparisons, meaningless apples-to-oranges number crunching and red meat for his hyper-progressive fan club.<\/p>\n 400,000: Americans who died fighting in World War II.<\/p>\n 400,000: Americans who died by household Firearms since 2001<\/p>\n — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nNeil deGrasse Tyson made the decision a long time ago to be a sort of media\u00a0cheerleader\u00a0for science instead of an actual scientist, and although he isn\u2019t 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.<\/h2>\n
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