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Neil DeGrasse Tyson: We Are Witnessing The 'Unraveling Of An Informed Democracy' MSNBC (Original Post)
niyad
Sep 2017
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Cartoonist
(7,298 posts)1. I wish he would run for Presdident.
He's a great speaker. Comparing him to Trump is like comparing Einstein to Homer Simpson.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)2. Don't knock Homer...
He demolished Pascal's Wager in two sentences:
"But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder."
Cartoonist
(7,298 posts)3. You just confirmed why he should be Prez
He's an atheist. He could build a wall between church and state that would make Trump's border wall look like a nursery pen.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)5. Just in case it got lost in there...
It was Homer Simpson who "said" what I quoted.
pfitz59
(10,198 posts)4. very smart man
and Trump and his advisers ignore his sound advice
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)6. We Are Witnessing The 'Unraveling Of An Informed Democracy'
Tyson is correct
ancianita
(35,816 posts)7. I love him. But maybe he's seeing the reformation of an unraveled democracy. Just sayin'. nt
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)8. If anyone ever doubts this
Just remember we have a presidunce who thinks vaccines cause autism, global warming is "fake news", and Obama was born in Kenya.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)9. I am surprised that they appear to have never heard of Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
I'm crazy about him.