Neil deGrasse Tyson Melts Down on The Highwire
April 11th, 2023It’s difficult to watch, but Tyson’s spectacular self immolation does produce warm, glowing schadenfreude.
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The guy has been an insufferable gatekeeper for “consensus” astrophysics for way too long–hopefully, bubye.
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Neil Tyson was just telling the truth about how science works these days as a tool of social and political control and has always worked. Any honest individual whose discoveries of fact raise questions about the narrative the authorities give us is repudiated and rebuked by ‘the authorities’. What happened to Galileo back when the recognized scientific authorities of his day insisted that the world was flat? To Linus Pauling when he first discovered the benefits of Vitamin C? Speaking truth to power is dangerous: the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. The only way to become an authority, to win a place in the existing officialdom governing any field of inquiry, is to agree with and obey those who are already there — to support the official consensus.
Tyson and the interviewer were talking about two different things: the way it is, and the way it should be. Tyson was insisting that the vast power of officialdom is the way it is. He never actually said anything about the way it should be, though his failure to address the interviewer’s point, and his repeated attempts to shout it down, certainly implied that it wasn’t worth discussing. Tyson has won a place in scientific officialdom and was aggressively defending it against any and all questioning because answers would reveal officialdom’s fakery. The interviewer and the scientific truth-tellers whom he named know that the way it has always been is not the way it should continue to be. Tyson doesn’t want anybody talking about that. But his dramatic performance comes too late — thanks to the internet, the public knows which is which, too, and is coming to prefer the truthful version of science.
The internet has given us a platform where all sides of an issue can be presented to the public directly. It has become heavily censored because officialdom has seen how many of us ordinary folks want to know the all facts behind each side’s claims and will use logic to evaluate whatever conclusions may be drawn from them. If we can return free speech to the internet, so that information frnm all sides is no longer suppressed, the existing officialdom in many fields will face huge changes. Our increasing knowledge threatens them with the loss of their undeserved and often-abused power, wealth and jobs, so they will do whatever they can get away with to keep us ignorant.
Besides — isn’t it consensus when the many accredited and published scientists who were named find that the results of their independent research supports and builds upon each other’s work? It’s certainly courage which Tyson obviously can’t match when the valid picture that emerges differs so greatly from the false, self-serving one painted by officialdom.
Welcome Snowman–don’t really have anything to disagree with in what you’ve written.
Are you an AI?
If so, for all we know you could be working for some of the good guys, who are quite numerous within our various governance and intelligence organizations. Or, you could just be out cruising the internet as part of your education.
NH – I’m human. It feels weird to have that questioned. I’ve never done any spy or detective type of work or worked for anyone who did.
Re-reading my comment, it looks to me like it can be identified as not AI because I (naturally, not intentionally) use a convoluted syntax that AI (I assume) would shun as not plain and simple enough for the average reader. But all I know about AI comes from John Oliver’s show on the topic. Surely an AI could be tailored to mimic my writing style if some techie wanted to do that. Yours, too, you know.
Yes, I do use the internet to educate myself, trying to keep informed and up to date. It’s frustrating, with all the fake news one has to wade through. But there’s where I find early warnings of where the PTSB is going to attack next.
I like Crytptogon because it’s a quick way to find significant news, and the guy who runs it seems to be a good guy doing a public service. But I wish more people would comment more and at more length so I’d have more to think about.
Snowman,
I was hoping you wouldn’t take offence to that question if you were human, and probably also weirdly, I was trying to be courteous and real in the off chance a possible conversation could be had with one of the new entities that are most probably roaming around autonomously (or otherwise) on the internet.
It appears this AI rabbit hole that many people are just now starting to look down into is going to get very weird.
Yeah, Cryptogon has been awesome over the DECADES–what an education and resource it’s been. If you dive into the archives you’ll find times when the comment section has been very active–many of the old articles and comments will still grab your attention.
It does seem we’ve entered times that could certainly ramp up the comments again.
Hasta la vista
A posthumous exposition by Wal Thornhill that offers a taste of a different physics paradigm from the current one DeGrasse Tyson is a representative for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Klc-PQah_Q