Knight Innovation Awards: An Interview with Honoree Neil deGrasse Tyson 

+Kefka Palazzo hehe I see what you did there

Audrey Do Hehehe :D

+Kefka Palazzo I think you mean the arsANAL... i'll go to the other corner...

+Kefka Palazzo Now go back in your corner! There is no place for you in scientific videos. You just make us laugh, so... Oh wait, I guess you do have a place. Take a seat

Léon Ruhe We can always use some humor in our science, just look at Mythbusters :D

3 years later, there are still only 21 vs 657 thumbs up

Dennis Bippus lmao, just did the same thing! like gotta see his tweets!

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WATSONMUTH Wot

A stunning display of hypocrisy. Neil gets so much wrong. He is in no position whatsoever to point fingers regarding lack of rigor.

@@HopDavidNah. Neil is great. You sound like a little girl.

...and insightful.

Neil complaining about lack of rigor is like Donald Trump complaining about lack of moral values. Tyson is a source of so much misinformation. His hypocrisy is stunning.

@@HopDavid *citation needed

@@christheghostwriter Thank you. You are a good skeptic. RU-vid won't let me post links. But I will talk about one of Tyson's fictions that you can easily verify. Neil's Bush and Star Names story was an account of President Bush's 9-11 speech. This tale was a standard part of Neil's routine from 2006 to 2014. He has Bush bragging that his Christian god is better than the Muslim God. He quotes Bush as saying "Our God is the God that named the stars!". Tyson called Bush's 9-11 speech "an attempt to distinguish we from they." Bush's actual 9-11 speech was titled "Islam is Peace". A call for tolerance and inclusion, it was delivered from the Islamic Center of Washington D.C. on September 17, 2001. In the fall of 2014 Sean Davis challenged Neil to produce this speech. Of course Neil could not. But that did not phase him. He informed Davis: "One of our mantras in science is that the absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence." But then the story started to trend. It even appeared in outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post. With a great deal of art twisting Neil admitted he had confused Bush's eulogy for the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts with his 9-11 speech. And he apologized to Bush. The Bush and Star Names story is one of a number of false histories Neil has spread. Neil is also a source of bad math and wrong science. I suspect the man spends more time on his wardrobe than he does striving for rigor and accuracy. It's very said more people don't notice.

true , but psychologically it is associated with danger, fire, blood etc so there would be something of a conundrum if green was psychologically associated with danger

No red has a longer wave length than the other colors

Yeah, if you want one light to be seen reliably it has to be on that frequency because it scatters less and can be perceived more easily if conditions aren't ideal, the same reason the Golden Gate bridge in S.F. is painted that color.

@@ballpark2481 Longer wave length = lower frequency / shorter wave length = higher frequency That's really not rocket science...

Haha! +Gino Foogle As the saying goes, those who can't, teach.

Just find it ironic how a university of journalism has no publicity whatsoever.. they must have been stuck in the newspaper era. haha

Over the years Neil's routines have had five false histories attacking religion. The above video was recorded about a year after Neil was busted for his Bush and Star Names story. This was a tale Neil incessantly repeated from 2006 to 2014. In the wake of 9-11 he has Bush bragging that his Christian God is better than the Muslim God. Tyson called Bush's speech "an attempt to distinguishe we from they." Stands to reason, right? We all know that Hate-Thy-Neighbor Republicans uses tragedy to sow division and hatred. Sadly for Tyson, Bush's actual 9-11 speech was titled "Islam is Peace". It was a call for tolerance and inclusion delivered from the Islamic Center of Washington D.C. on September 17, 2001. Sean Davis challenged Neil to produce the speech he described. He could not but that didn't phase him. He informed Davis that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. But then the story started receiving more attention, even appearing in The Washington Post. Neil was eventually forced to admit that he had confused Bush's eulogy for the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts with his 9-11 speech. He acknowledged that Bush hadn't tried to set Christians above Muslims and apologized to Bush. And there are four more fictions that Tyson and his following uses to attack believers and faith. I am hoping Neil Tyson and his cult of personality will become widely known for the their stupidity and dishonesty. That includes you, @brogen802. Look in the mirror and see someone with a devastating lack of critical thinking skills.

show me white guy with same clear-thinking

@@wlodekkasprzycki1432 brain green

+Kasper D. Rasmussen This happened about a week ago. according to TWIT / This Week in Google.

Hey Dr. Tyson - I left you a voicemail. Can I get a phone call back from somebody at the Hayden planetarium please. Even if there are no jobs available I’ll volunteer my time.

NDT is a great communicator of misinformation. But not the greatest, Donald Trump has him beat in that regard. The man outright invents history to support his talking points. And yet he screams about lack of rigor in journalims. His hyprocrisy is stunning.

@Shane Patrick what I mean was how proud us as black community for having hom.

+Kasper D. Rasmussen I believe he compared his number of twitter followers to New Yorker's circulation numbers not it's twitter followers.

You ignorant idiot listen to him carefully.

+ItsameAlex That's why NASA is trying to get there. The question was about whether or not it would be an option if the earth were to go to complete shit.

whaddayamean ?

Eh... it all depends on how you measure it. We do share 98% genetics but it's not sequenced the same way. If you segment our DNA, you can find 98% commonality but if you compare it in their natural sequences then it gets closer to 90%.