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While I’d agree with you I’d submit that a lot of the science community has odd feelings about Bill Nye so I can see how that can exacerbate people into writing things like this. Maybe they wouldn’t normally believe that and would agree with you but this circumstance changed that. Idk

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I don’t care for Bill Nye or Neil deGrasse Tyson personally, but science needs every advocate in these dark times.

A bad advocate undoes the work of a good advocate. Bill Nye doesn't really use scientific methods. His last show was a mess, because he made assertions he didn't back up.

Bill Nye has done good work on the past, but he is undoing the work he has done lately.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough. We have congressional reps who proclaim there is no global warming because it still snows (while holding up a snowball on the floor of Congress). Again, every advocate is needed, even if they make mistakes (as we all do).

the world needs more Beakman

If you get children pumped up about science and the natural world, does it matter if you don't use scientific methods?

I agree with you on questioning Bill Nye's credential to become such a prominent science figure. But the article is just a ridiculous hit job trying to poison the scientific community.

What odd feelings are those? After all, they've given him a handful of honorary science doctorates.

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