Astrophysicist and scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of many who seems to think science is a religion rather than a too. As humans, we are mere mortals, and science is something that develops and gets better as we know more.
Science especially works best when used and looked at through an unbiased lens. Far too often though, science becomes political.
Recently leftists have become drunk with power, rarely getting censored or fact-checked as right-wingers do, and there doesn’t seem to be as many checks and balances. This is leading to people such as Tyson and MSNBC’s Joy Reid saying outlandish things with few consequences.
Although Tyson did delete his tweet, it was of his own accord, as many apparently were furious in his own replies about it. Tyson did make a new tweet stating that he deleted the old tweet.
Someone in the replies of the new tweet, however, posted a screenshot of what appears at least, to be the old tweet. A scientist like Tyson should know you can’t delete something from the internet once enough people are furious about it. Nevertheless, the arguments continued in the replies to the new tweet.
The new tweet read:
“FYI: Deleted the Republican-Democrat COVID tweet. Was causing too many unintended Twitter fights.”
Um, too many Twitter fights? Do you think so Mr. Science man? Well, that’s one way of not apologizing for saying such a shocking thing I suppose.
Assume the below screenshot is the correct one and depicts the one deleted by Tyson, what he originally said was, “In case anyone is curious… Right now in the USA, every ten days, more than 8,000 (unvaccinated) Republican voters are dying of COVID-19. That’s 5X the rate for Democrats.”
For a science guy, he’s forgetting that many minorities in poor communities are not getting vaccinated at the same rates as other areas as well. This could negate his science. But we don’t think he cared about being scientific in that tweet.
He was saying it for one of two reasons. He either wants to celebrate the potential and tragic death of “Republican voters” or he wants more people to get vaccinated by scaring Republicans with unproven data. Hard to say which it was but he knew enough to delete his tweet. It’s shocking what some of these so-called professionals get away with.
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Here is the actual newer tweet as long as it’s not deleted as well:
FYI: Deleted the Republican-Democrat COVID tweet. Was causing too many unintended Twitter fights.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 2, 2021
