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I hate to say it but I agree with him. The dumbing down of Americans has gotten biglier and biglier.
Courtesy of HuffPo:
“It’s the beginning of the end,” he told Yahoo News and Finance anchor Bianna Golodryga. “It’s the beginning of the end of an informed democracy, the moment people are debating whether an objectively established scientific truth is true. The moment that happens, there is no informed decision-making.”
Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, said he was disturbed that government leaders were ignoring the scientific reports from the National Academy of Sciences.
“If you’re going to ignore their reports, there is no future for a country that wants to thrive in terms of its health and its wealth and its security,” he said.
Tyson said competition in all those fields require “innovation and intelligent investments” in science, technology, engineering and math.
“If you don’t have that, just watch America fade. We’re already kind of fading. Just watch it continue to fade and just disappear. It’s not a cliff, so you don’t know it. You don’t ‘oh, we’re stepping over the edge.’ No, no. It’s just, we’ll become less relevant. The world starts making decisions without us, where we used to lead those very same decisions.”
“I’m so disappointed that the country that I grew up in ― that put men on the moon, that developed the internet, that invented personal computers and smartphones ― that people are debating what is and what is not scientifically true.”
I actually do not think we need a famous astrophysicist to point this out to us, we are seeing it with our own eyes almost every day.
This is what helped to elect Donald Trump.
This is what is undermining our public education.
And this is what is potentially destroying the future of our country.
It is what the conservatives have been pushing us toward for decades.
If facts have a liberal bias, well then facts need to be undermined and stripped of their ability to shape the opinions and open the minds of the American citizens.
And here we are.
At a place where truth is a matter of opinion, and reality is open to interpretation.
“It’s the beginning of the end,” he told Yahoo News and Finance anchor Bianna Golodryga. “It’s the beginning of the end of an informed democracy, the moment people are debating whether an objectively established scientific truth is true. The moment that happens, there is no informed decision-making.”
Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, said he was disturbed that government leaders were ignoring the scientific reports from the National Academy of Sciences.
“If you’re going to ignore their reports, there is no future for a country that wants to thrive in terms of its health and its wealth and its security,” he said.
Tyson said competition in all those fields require “innovation and intelligent investments” in science, technology, engineering and math.
“If you don’t have that, just watch America fade. We’re already kind of fading. Just watch it continue to fade and just disappear. It’s not a cliff, so you don’t know it. You don’t ‘oh, we’re stepping over the edge.’ No, no. It’s just, we’ll become less relevant. The world starts making decisions without us, where we used to lead those very same decisions.”
“I’m so disappointed that the country that I grew up in ― that put men on the moon, that developed the internet, that invented personal computers and smartphones ― that people are debating what is and what is not scientifically true.”
I actually do not think we need a famous astrophysicist to point this out to us, we are seeing it with our own eyes almost every day.
This is what helped to elect Donald Trump.
This is what is undermining our public education.
And this is what is potentially destroying the future of our country.
It is what the conservatives have been pushing us toward for decades.
If facts have a liberal bias, well then facts need to be undermined and stripped of their ability to shape the opinions and open the minds of the American citizens.
And here we are.
At a place where truth is a matter of opinion, and reality is open to interpretation.
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