Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tells Bill Maher: 'Anti-Science Liberals Are Full of Shit Too' Gizmodo
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Neil Degrasse Tyson takes on anti-science Liberals (Radoslav)

Every Friday night in the US, comedian Bill Maher puts on a show with an interesting mix of guests. But this past Friday, Maher repeated a claim he often makes that was finally smacked down by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Namely, Maher said that conservatives are consistently more anti-science than liberals. That’s bullshit.

“Let’s not pretend that Democrats and Republicans equally deny science,” Maher said. But TV-scientist and friend of the show Neil DeGrasse Tyson quickly stepped in to correct Maher.

“Don’t be too high and mighty there,” Tyson said. “Because there are certain aspects of science denials that are squarely in the liberal left.”

Maher asked Tyson to elaborate.”I know one, but I don’t want to get into it,” Maher said.

What was “the one”? For viewers who are familiar with Maher’s bizarre belief that vaccines cause autism (they don’t), we could guess what he was talking about. But the panellists said it out loud anyway.

“Vaccines!” everyone said in unison. Maher simply pointed and said, “Yes.”

Tyson went on to explain that liberals also tend to be the ones who consistently scare people about what they believe are the dangers of genetically modified organisms. He also rightly pointed out that liberals tend to be big believers in “alternative medicine”.

Maher has been a great advocate for climate science. But when it comes to health and medicine, he gives liberals a really bad name.

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