Space Pedantry

Neil deGrasse Tyson: pedantry in space

It's a pretty good deconstruction of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the arrogant brat who has declared himself the successor to the brilliant Carl Sagan. In reality, he's no such thing. He's a sniveling pedant who owes more of his fame to melanin ("Oh, look! A black man with a science degree! We must worship him!") than his mental prowess. Ten minutes of listening to his ridiculous "observations" make it very obvious to anyone who isn't fascinated with his skin color that he's not nearly so bright as he bills himself.

Like the ever-annoying Bill Nye, Tyson drapes himself in science in the same way a whore wears a dress: poorly and for less than honest purposes. The linked article just points all of this out at length, but it's worth a read if Tyson annoys you as much as he annoys me.