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Bill Nye Saves the World, the Anti-Anti-Science Show, Hits Netflix in April

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I'm getting sick of Bill Nye. I loved his show in the 90's, but he's really a one trick pony at this point.

Climate Change - I get it.

He did some important work for Boeing, which is to be respected, but it's not in the climate science field.

He's becoming more of a propagandist than an educator now, and i will not be watching his show.

Most of the work I see him doing is actually for the Planetary society, which is kind of a cool organisation that advocates for Space exploration. It's just that the really popular stuff in the media seems to center on climate change and other "controversial" topics.

Okay, what changes have you made to your lifestyle to minimise your ecological impact and personal contribution to climate change?

If the answer is "none", then I'd say the message needs to be repeated.

And you are saying that I should base my "ecological guilt" on the thoughts of an aerospace engineer, and a random commenter on the internet?

I feel like you missed my point. The politicization of climate science swings both ways. He brings nothing to the table but browbeating and guilt.

This type of show only preaches to the converted, and only further divides society.

If he goes back to "teaching", i would probably watch, but every time i hear him preach, i want to burn a tire in my front yard.

If there is one thing the religious right recognizes is religious fervor. To them Bill Nye and others are just another version of televangelist preaching guilt and a certain way to live to forestall apocalyptic doom.

As a whole the religious right would be a lot more receptive of people who talked like engineers rather than preachers. Elon Musk will likely do more for climate change by selling people a product than Bill Nye will. In fact I'd bet that Bill likely will do more to harm progress on the issue than advance it.

I like Bill Nye, but I think he misses opportunities, learning moments for his opponents on the topics of climate/evolution/whatever, watching both the Ham debate and the recent visit to Noahs Ark-ville. For example, when Ham asked "do you think this girl is an animal" or something, IIRC Bill demurred and said something like Yes, she is a mammal or something - my opinion of course, but he could have driven a home run and demonstrated Yes, I do because look, she moves like one, has a mouth like one, has hair like one, and look she goes to the bathroom like one, has all the body parts of one - And if we go into the lab and compare the DNA, blood, urine, ad infinitum, we can show there is nary a difference there too, and therefore yes, it s/b clear to everyone standing here she is more closer to an animal compared to anything else you know or have seen in the known universe. It would likely still fail to convince most but not all. That said, I think he will do a good job keeping the interest of the viewer and can drive it home.

LOL.. Yes I can just imagine all those "Anti-science" people switching off 'Honey boo-boo' and watching this instead!

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