• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    One of these nerds is not like the others,
    One of these geeks just doesn’t belong,
    Can you tell which nerd is not like the others
    By the time I finish my song?

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t like Tyson because I feel he preaches an inaccurate version of the scientific philosophy. So many times I hear him saying things along the lines of absolute certainty, because it’s SCIENCE.

      Where, we of the true faith, preach: the evidence indicates that this is the most likely to be true, or at least, this model makes predictions about the world more reliably than any other we currently have.

      Amen.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        While Einstein and Hawking (no s) were giants of their field, published papers that turned all other accepted science on its head, and have basic physical phenomenon of the Universe named after them, they were surprisingly limited in their knowledge of other fields. Whereas NdT will expound on absolutely any topic with the complete certainty that he is a fucking expert, even if he only just now inferred the existence of the thing from the question he is presently being asked. He is a Mycroftian megabrain of galactic proportions, a fact he appreciates better than anyone else.