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[–] 404_SLEEP_NOT_FOUND 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago 

Bill Nye is not a scientist, but an Engineer from Boeing, turned entertainer. He got his start on a Seattle Comedy Sketch show where he was "the Science guy". Looking to Bill Nye as some kind of authority on science is weak.

Basically, his argument is "Science is right. I'm on the side of science, so I'm right." Science is right, and it takes a long and empirical time to get there. It also gets there by asking questions, not saying "shutup, science is always right." He is the opposite of science, and has never once been a part of any scientific studies. He has only worked on infotainment related projects like hovercrafts and mixing beakers on camera.

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[–] CobraStallone [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

He is still a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, well-informed on the topic, at least by laymen standards, a respected science communicator, what does Wilmore and his posse offer instead? Interest in hypothetical sex tapes? Not knowing how much 50% is?

They should respect the ideas and topic if not the man, but they couldn't care less and think that that anti-intellectual position is hip and cool. It really pisses me off.

And Nye has several honorary doctorates in science by the way.

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[–] 404_SLEEP_NOT_FOUND 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

They should respect the ideas and topic

You cannot respect what you don't understand. Asking them to respect it, without understanding it, is just promoting dogma. Sadly, many of the reddit scientists want this. Bill Nye / Neil Tyson are at the forefront of this anti-scientific movement. The actual scientific discoveries and methods should be promoted, not the topic.

anti-intellectual

Nye is an anti-intellectual, because America hates intellectuals, and for centuries. An actual intellectual would never gain popularly. Take a look at how anti-intellectual America is: all folklore is about strength/endurance (Jonny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan) and not intelligence (Homer's Iliad, European folklore). They parade singers and athletes around and pay them millions-to-billions. Name one highly paid thinker. Nye's only way to way to rise in America was to appear just smart enough, but not too smart. He is the useful idiot.

If he were smart, why would he appear on that show in the first place? Noam Chomsky never appears on these sound-bite clip shows because there is no discussion, it's just yelling the loudest and last. The OP to the video you posted does the same shit in his own video (probably having been raised by these kinds of shows). He does this, despite having a monologue format. He just keeps raising his hands in the air and complaining with the use of sensational statements like having a brain aneurysm, after showing a 2 second clip.

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[–] Gigan 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Just another example of why the nightly show sucks. CC can't replace Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert.

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[–] CobraStallone [S] ago 

I haven't really seen it, I never much liked Larry Wilmore and his one shtick of being the Black guy that made Stewart uncomfortable.

Still though, this is pretty abysmal.

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[–] luckyguy 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

A clump of cells being a human-being is anti-science. What does he think a human being is... scientifically.

Engineers tend to be conservitive. Many conservitives tend to be rather scientific minded. It's just that any party needs its useful idiots as does the left.

A party will court anyone who is willing to vote for it. Parties are figuratively sluts. The base of conservitive ideology is a mechanical understanding of man, state, and economy. Mechanical thinking is actually the real foundation of science. That is reason. Data is the layer above it.

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[–] SpaceLizard ago 

A clump of cells being a human-being is anti-science. What does he think a human being is... scientifically.

You're saying this like its the only criteria needed for being considered a human. Yes humans are clumps of cells, just like my cat is also a clump of cells, and my house plants are also just clumps of sells. My cat, and plants are not humans though despite being what you claim a "human being is... scientifically". If we were to go by this standard you seem to have just made up on the spot then the act of masturbation, or sex is really an act of genocide.