He flunks Scientific American, anyway. Bill Maher put Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the spot last night on his HBO show Real Time, discussing the politicization of science and the populist revolt against the radical progressive Left in the latest election. And the pop scientist can’t bring himself to acknowledge that the 170-year-old magazine sold out science years ago for social-engineering quackery and radical politics.
The debate begins with Maher blaming the election loss on the disconnect between Democrats and biological reality, using the meltdown by former Scientific American editor in chief Laura Helmuth as an example. Despite Maher’s repeated probing, Tyson refuses to acknowledge a biological difference in sports performance and declines to rebut Helmuth’s claim that all such differences are due to social bias.
In the end, Bill Maher says, “I’m going to…
