Neil deGrasse Tyson: How science literacy can save us from the internet | Big Think

Funny you should bring up "Looser Think" because I found him guilty of exactly what he was preaching against. When he used "group predictions" he cherry picked four things that Scientists got wrong (at least in his mind)...and ignored the number of predictions: finding the Higgs, black holes, gravity waves, dark energy, dark matter, and a whole host of particles in the Standard Model - all "predicted by Science" and found.

Over all, I liked his book. But people who gather data on different things, do tend to trust their data...but they don't make bold predictions- and tend to be conservative in their outlook. Yet, over and over again, their data led predictions come to be true. It is just when someone exaggerates outside their area of expertise, or makes sweeping generalizations, or Universal Statements, those are almost always "wrong" . Science is always questioning...so sometimes new technologies or discoveries force us to change positions... and that looks to the layman like things are waffling...they aren't.

But one thing I do agree with in his book is this: most people only read to confirm their beliefs. Including him. LOL

One could say that about politicians who are mostly college/university educated... LOL!

Sgt (Join to see) - I keep hearing claims that it is accepted scientific fact even though such claims have been debunked. There is no actual consensus. I keep hearing that the science is settled even though science is never settled. I keep hearing that thousands of climatologists have closed ranks behind the theory even though climatology is an arcane branch of physics studied by fewer than a couple hundred. What then is the purpose of the man-made climate change narrative if not science? It appears to me to be an agenda of ideologues who want to exercise control of the masses through fear. Do as we say or suffer the consequences. Education has nothing to do with it...