{"id":95836,"date":"2016-06-08T12:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=95836"},"modified":"2016-09-01T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:23:58","slug":"why-does-neil-degrasse-tyson-let-embryology-deniers-off-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/why-does-neil-degrasse-tyson-let-embryology-deniers-off-the-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Neil deGrasse Tyson let embryology deniers off the hook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Among the most insufferable figures in modern media\u2019s rich cast of ne&#8217;er-do-wells is the celebrity expert, someone with a reputation for specialized knowledge in some limited area who the media anoints as the last word on much <em>broader<\/em> areas, not because he\u2019s earned it but because his judgment is selective enough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/384081\/smarter-thou-charles-c-w-cooke\">to make for useful propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The worst example of this phenomenon is <a href=\"\/news\/?s=%22bill+nye%22\">Bill Nye the Science Guy<\/a>, who first started making the rounds criticizing politicians for alleged scientific illiteracy, conveniently ignored the much clearer and more widespread scientific illiteracy of politicians denying that life begins at fertilization, then eventually used his standing to start <em>promoting<\/em> the fiction as fact.<\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hasn\u2019t <em>quite<\/em> taken that final step (a pro-abortion image featuring him online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/atheism\/comments\/19s513\/neil_degrasse_tyson_on_god_and_abortion\/\">appears to be a misquote<\/a>), but his blind spot when it comes to embryology deniers speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Tyson attacks conservatives for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2014\/06\/neil-degrasse-tyson-final-cosmos-interview-republicans\">remaining skeptical about global warming<\/a>, thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/neil-degrasse-tyson-flat-earthers_us_574f0741e4b0ed593f12e545\">public schools letting people believe Earth is flat<\/a> is still a problem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haydenplanetarium.org\/tyson\/read\/2005\/11\/01\/the-perimeter-of-ignorance\">suggests<\/a> that Isaac Newton\u2019s belief that the universe had a designer hindered his scientific work, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/03\/31\/neil-degrasse-tyson-defends-scientology-and-the-bush-administration-s-science-record.html?via=mobile&amp;source=twitter\">accuses<\/a> Republicans of putting religion and oil interests ahead of sound policy on stem cells and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, Tyson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/neil-degrasse-tyson-criticizes-liberals-for-anti-science-beliefs-on-maher\/\">appeared<\/a> on Bill Maher\u2019s show to discuss the politicization of science. To his credit, he pointed out a couple of areas where Democrats are also on shaky scientific ground\u2026 but left unchallenged Maher and other panelists\u2019 conclusion that <em>of course<\/em> they didn\u2019t make the parties equally anti-science, and left embryology denial completely unmentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The real false equivalency here is ignoring the fact that no other real or perceived science-mangling in our country even comes close to the embryology deniers, either in the clarity of the wrongness or the severity of the consequences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/40-quotes-from-medical-experts-that-prove-human-life-begins-at-conception\/\">Dozens of mainstream, non-political scientific textbooks, organizations, and experts<\/a> clearly confirm that the life of a new human being begins at fertilization. All three relevant variables to the question\u2014what constitutes an organism, how we know it\u2019s alive, and how to classify it as human\u2014have <a href=\"\/news\/the-science-of-abortion-when-does-life-begin\/\">settled, unambiguous criteria<\/a>. Writing developing humans off as potential rather than actual entities <a href=\"\/news\/wise-bill-oreilly-insists-preborn-potential-humans\/\">doesn&#8217;t withstand the most basic logical scrutiny<\/a>. Everything I\u2019ve just said is 100% secular and empirical, not depending on a scrap of theology or emotion or subjectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast that with Nye and Tyson\u2019s favorite example of \u201csettled science,\u201d climate change. Without getting too sidetracked, that theory is still disputed because, among other things, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/411259\/climate-changes-instructive-past-george-will\">historical precedent contradicting it<\/a>, the alleged expert consensus confirming it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/newsite\/article\/global-warming-the-97-fallacy\/15069#.V1cwBGYWORu\">is a fabrication<\/a>, and many of its leading proponents <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/02\/another-american-media-failure\/\">have been caught falsifying, hiding, and otherwise manipulating data<\/a>. And yet, Tyson ignores all that in favor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/neil-degrasse-tyson-climate-change-deniers-2016-2\">smugly theorizing<\/a> that climate change skeptics just never learned \u201cwhat science is\u201d or \u201chow and why science works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hey Neil? I\u2019ve got a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/talesfromthetrail\/2008\/08\/16\/obama-says-pointed-abortion-query-above-his-pay-grade\/\">sitting President of the United States<\/a>, his party\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/shark-tank.com\/2015\/08\/12\/marco-rubio-offends-hillary-clinton-with-his-abortion-stance\/\">nominee to succeed him<\/a>, the <a href=\"\/news\/dnc-chair-debbie-wasserman-schultz-wont-admit-humanity-of-own-preborn-children\/\">chair of their party<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakesville.com\/2008\/08\/speaker-pelosi-on-when-life-begins.html\">former Speaker of the House<\/a>, and scores of additional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/george-will-barbara-boxers-position-abortion-74293\">politicians<\/a>, interest group <a href=\"\/news\/are-women-considering-abortion-informed-not-if-planned-parenthood-can-help-it\/\">representatives<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/shocking-video-planned-parenthood-reps-tell-students-to-ignore-science-abou\">activists<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/05\/19\/the-washington-post-is-super-confused-about-where-babies-come-from\/\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/08\/10\/cnns-chris-cuomo-has-absolutely-no-idea-where-babies-come-from\/\">outlets<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/sarah-silverman-again-lectures-pro-lifers-on-a-subject-she-doesnt-understand\/\">and<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/abortion-backer-melissa-harris-perry-life-begins-whenever-you-feel-like-it-does\/\">personalities<\/a>, and even a few of your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/richard-dawkins-claims-unborn-children-are-less-human-than-pigs-stirs-firestorm-91911\/\">fellow<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/03\/17\/the-fertilized-egg-is-not-a-hu\/\">scientists<\/a> in far greater need of a lecture on \u201chow and why science works.\u201d Heck, the Supreme Court <a href=\"\/news\/the-case-against-roe-v-wade-and-planned-parenthood-v-casey\/\">wrongly claiming<\/a> there was no answer to \u201cthe difficult question of when life begins\u201d is the entire reason we\u2019re having this conversation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69204\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69204\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-02-at-9.16.58-PM.png\" alt=\"More real photos at www.ehd.org\" width=\"505\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-02-at-9.16.58-PM.png 505w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-02-at-9.16.58-PM-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-69204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More real photos at www.ehd.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In addition to contradicting a fact far less ambiguous, embryology denial has far greater ramifications. Virtually none of the proposed environmental regulations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/422395\/carly-fiorina-shows-how-address-left-climate-change-david-french\">would make a dent in global temperature anyway<\/a> if skeptics became believers tomorrow, whereas <em>people die every day<\/em> as a direct result of the scientific ignorance promoted by the abortion industry and its political allies\u2014more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northbynorthwestern.com\/story\/are-there-really-3700-abortions-each-day-in-the-us\/\">3,000 babies a day<\/a>, roughly a million a year, and a total of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/01\/14\/58586256-abortions-in-america-since-roe-v-wade-in-1973\/\">more than 58 million<\/a> since <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s followed by the <a href=\"\/news\/debunking-narals-lies-about-crisis-pregnancy-centers-part-two\/\">litany of physical, mental, and emotional risks<\/a> that accompany even \u201cproper\u201d abortions (denial of which could be an entirely separate article about selective science), and the women who suffer and die at the hands of <a href=\"\/news\/oklahoma-supreme-court-sullies-pro-life-ruling-with-potshot-at-abortion-restrictions\/\">abortionists who fall well below<\/a> their industry\u2019s standards of \u201cproper,\u201d yet get a pass from the rest of the pro-abortion community.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty to criticize in both parties, and much to debate in other issues, but when a public figure volunteers to police the scientific fidelity of politicians yet year after year ignores the single most egregious and dangerous assault on science from either side, it\u2019s hard to conclude something other than science isn\u2019t the highest 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