Tag Archives: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Something to think about as you’re lighting up Chinese fireworks in celebration of our country’s unsurpassed greatness

By Mark | July 4, 2012

Following up on our conversation about the purposeful dumbing down of America, I though that I’d share this tweet, sent out today by renowned American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. This is in reference, for those of you who don’t know, to the fact that, earlier today, physicists near Geneva, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, officially […]

Posted in Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged American exceptionalism, anti-science, bets, dumbing down of America, European Organization for Nuclear Research, fireworks, Fourth of July, god particle, Gordon Kane, Higgs boson, July 4, Large Hadron Collider, Peter Higgs, Science, science fail, Stephen Hawking, subatomic particles, University of Michigan | 96 Comments

Neil DeGrasse Tyson blinding Bob Lutz with the incontrovertible truth of science

By Mark | March 5, 2012

Everyone’s favorite super cool scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, had what I found to be an interesting exchange with GM’s former chairman, Bob Lutz, on Bill Maher’s program a couple of days ago. The ball got rolling when Lutz, who, as you’ll recall, was quoted in 2004 as saying that global warming was “a total crock […]

Posted in Education, Environment, Politics, Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1941, anti-science, astrophysicists, Bible, Bob Lutz, cognitive dissonance, crocks of shit, Florida, Florida Keys, General Motors, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, hurricanes, memories of childhood, Mitt Romney, Obamacare, reality deficient, republican primary, RIck Santorum, Scarsdale, Science, the origins of man, the universe | 14 Comments

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