Neil deGrasse Tyson Chastises Media For Giving 'Flat Earthers' Equal Time in Cl

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xchrom (100,263 posts)   Tue Mar 11, 2014, 07:32 AM


Neil deGrasse Tyson Chastises Media For Giving 'Flat Earthers' Equal Time in Climate Change Debate

Neil deGrasse Tyson, the star of Fox Networks' Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, says its time to stop giving equal time to science deniers and chastised the media for creating a false equivalence in its coverage of scientific issues.

Tyson, who is also the director of the Natural History Museum's Hayden Planetarium, appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources program on Sunday, where he talked about the hypocrisy of people dismissing scientific theory while simultaneously embracing the fruits of scientific discovery “that we so take for granted today.”

Reliable Sources Anchor Brian Stelter inquired if Tyson thought the media had a responsibility in portraying science correctly, particularly when discussing controversial issues such as climate change. Tyson replied that the media was giving “equal time to the flat-earthers.”

“The media has to sort of come out of this ethos that I think was in principle a good one, but it doesn’t really apply in science,” Tyson said. “The ethos was, whatever story you give, you have to give the opposing view. And then you can be viewed as balanced.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024643469

Berlum (6,805 posts)
2. OK, good point. But Tyson needs to focus his telescope on his own pay stub

If you are getting paid by the Climate Denying Propaganda Pimps, Inc. (R - Fox), you need to sit down and have a long talk with yourself.

Gothmog (9,045 posts)
4. Flat earthers are sad people

There are not two equal sides to scientific issues

The Wizard (7,676 posts)
10. The radical right

has cowed the media into giving equal weight to lies and facts. And therein lies the problem. There was a time when lies were ridiculed and deconstructed. Now they're just accepted as a differing viewpoint.

DUmmies can't distinguish between lies and facts. They believe what Obama tells them.

winter is coming (5,202 posts)
16. Not just equal time; equal credulity.

Climate change is not an issue that's "too close to call".

True. It just isn't happening the way your side pretends it is.

ananda (13,783 posts)
18. True dat. There is no debate over climate change ...

... only over solutions.

Your side should stop breathing. That solves the problem.

[Carl]

GloBULL warming is nothing more then a leftist religion.

[Freeper]

Fact: flat earthers believe in climate change.

[Wineslob]

From WIKI DUmmies:

The defining characteristic of all scientific knowledge, including theories, is the ability to make falsifiable or testable predictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory



Show me testable predictions proving Glowballs Warming.


I won't be waiting.