In a child's funeral: balloon moved and hugs grieving mother

You are unlikely to see those issues raised on TV but in print he has been taken to task a few times. Here's another if not the the one you read

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ke-up-stories/

He's generally a smart guy and very smart in his field but his errors underline two popular myths

1) Scientists are not versions of Mr Spock without emotion or bias. They have biases and they affect how they view things. Tyson has a bias that has him aligned with Dawkins, Harris, Krauss etc in a war against an ideology that science is silent on. Most of his glaring errors are because of that war agenda he has.

2) smart is not universally smart. We have the wide belief that because someone is smart in one area they are smart in all areas. Why we have this is not clear. Most of us went to school with people that were good in science and not so much English. Good in history but lousy in Biology. In fact some of the brainiacs were the stupidest people in social and practical situations. They could figure out how to do quadratic equations easily but couldn't handle practical philosophical calculations.

Take Tyson's most horrible gaffe in the who named the stars alleged speech - beyond him getting almost everything wrong the point itself is a rather stupid one - the fact that arabs named the stars in no shape or form rebuts that anyone named them before. its an even more idiotic point when you realize that the Babylonians hundreds and hundreds of years before Arabs tracked the movement of stars. Many different cultures have had names for stars and constellations - they after all have been there since man walked the planet!

So the point is just silly. Yes today we have arabic names for stars but stars were named long before Arabs came around. who named them first and what they were named first is beyond us knowing.

Did you really think it was cute? I was going for sarcasm, but I'll take Cute....unless you were just trying to be sarcastic. In which case, you just wanted to go personal for whatever reason.

Actually there's quite a bit of them. That one would have been several hundred years BC but its not even the clearest one which goes back several hundred years more. The whole flat earth being held by a wide group is a classic in smear campaign tactics. It was created by skeptics of a position to create conflict and as a false example by which to fool the masses. Now a hundred years later its still being heralded as fact when its been proven to be utterly false.