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[–] EarlPoncho 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
he's not good at what he does. he failed out of UT and then claimed it was because of racism. he's never contributed any research to the scientific community. his tv show cosmos was filled with blatant lies. he's just an articulate dude who is black who has been foisted up by the american progressive left
[–] Swole_is_life 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
"What he does" is not science but rather trying to make science appeal to the masses, which he obviously does well for us to be having this discussion. He's not anything special in terms of physicists, no. I should have been a little more clear.
[–] EarthquakesAreScary ago (edited ago)
But that's just it, he doesn't make science appeal to the masses. He, Nye, I'd argue most popscience personalities just make people happy about some vague idea of science. But are they coming away from reading anything by them with even a fraction of what's needed to properly understand general scientific methodology or experimental design? Can they look at any random journal and at least have an idea of what they're looking at? If anything it borders on setting up the idea of some kind of divine scientific revelation with special books and ideas that only the priesthood can understand. And worse, even that's usually dumbed down to an almost painful degree.