‘Makes no sense’: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Trump-related deep thought baffles

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Have you ever wondered what Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks about the issue of Donald Trump? Maybe not, but he’s weighed in anyhow: Tyson, who previously speculated who Jesus would vote for, either irritated or confused with this particular foray into politics: Read more: http://twitchy.com/2016/03/13/makes-no-sense-neil-degrasse-tysons-trump-related-deep-thought-baffles/

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Hack-tastic Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet sparks a hashtag: #TysonTweets

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http://twitter.com/#!/EsotericCD/status/517115274420826114 And what’s the deal with airline food? Sometimes people just can’t handle how brilliant astrophysicist/Reddit messiah Neil deGrasse Tyson is. When he’s not making up presidential quotes or looking for venues in which to apologize for doing so, he’s dropping scientific brain busters like this. If Detroit added a pro-sports team & called it the […]

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Neil deGrasse Tyson — serial fabulist?

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http://twitter.com/#!/MZHemingway/status/511879707022094336 Serious questions: are *any* quotes/anecdotes highlighted by @neiltyson legitimate? http://t.co/wrwrZlNhnG — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 15, 2014 Sean Davis of The Federalist has been fact-checking some of the more spectacular statements from celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and the result isn’t pretty. For example, Davis highlighted this slide from one of Tyson’s recent presentations. Tyson’s source for […]

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Wikipedia’s scrubbing of deGrasse Tyson controversy ‘would make China proud’

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http://twitter.com/#!/jeffhandle/status/515318274364428288 As Twitchy reported, The Federalist’s Sean Davis has been fact-checking some quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson, including Tyson’s claim that George W. Bush in the days after 9/11 said that “Our God is the God who named the stars,” which Tyson explains was Bush’s way of segregating radical Islam from religions like Christianity or Judaism. […]

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Good News! Eventually The Universe Will Become Too Cold And Everything Will Just Die

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Something to keep in mind the next time the long, cold winter has got you down. 1. Let’s assume that about 13.7 billion years ago, there was a sort of biggish kind of bang. Let’s call it the “Biggish Bang.” View this image › Adult Swim During this “Biggish Bang,” all the energy and matter […]

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Neil deGrasse Tyson finally admits he was wrong. Kind of…

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http://twitter.com/#!/KatMcKinley/status/515945902549131265 As Twitchy noted last week, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been in a war of words with Sean Davis of The Federalist regarding a number of “quotes/anecdotes” used by Dr. Tyson that cannot be verified or sourced. The most egregious of these errors was a quote that Dr. Tyson had used numerous times in the […]

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What The MythBusters Think About 14 Science Things

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Vaccines? Climate change? Yup. MythBusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have been making things explode for 13 seasons. But we wanted to hear what they think of some of the biggest recent science headlines, from the Jurassic Park sequel to Mercury retrograde. Here are 14 of their answers from our lightning round of word association. […]

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