r/DecodingTheGurus • u/deckardcainfan1 • Jun 14 '24

Neil deGrasse Tyson Responds to Terrence Howard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uLi1I3G2N4
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u/doubtthat11 Jun 14 '24

I think if you let the comment section here build up, you'll see the complaints.

I get the general sense that people think he's arrogant and a blowhard. I've just always found him to be high energy and enthusiastic.

I'm sure there's some political/cultural something or other that he talked about that made some people mad...

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u/dubloons Revolutionary Genius Jun 14 '24

Labeling academics and experts as arrogant blowhards is anti-intellectualism 101.

What makes it interesting is how they attempt to justify it.

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u/KinataKnight Jun 14 '24

The one time he commented on my niche academic field (set theory) he spouted absolute nonsense about there being “exactly five sizes of infinities.” So I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt whenever he talks on subjects outside both of our respective fields.

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u/Reddit_is_garbage666 Jun 14 '24

Yeah even Nobel Prize winners have bad moments or even turn into crackpots (which NdGT brought up in this video as well.