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His recent statement. Also, we're trying to move away from gratuitous statements about people's religion in non-religious articles.
'''Neil deGrasse Tyson''' is an astrophyicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium. Like the [[agnosticism|agnostic]] and [[evolution]]ist [[Richard Dawkins]], he is a very public figure, having been featured on various popular media programs such as the [[History Channel]], where he has promoted his agnostic, [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] and [[history|unhistorical]] [[worldview]].<ref>[http://bigthink.com/think-tank/neil-degrasse-tyson-atheist-or-agnostic Is Neil deGrasse Tyson an atheist or agnostic?]</ref> He is the director of the Hayden Planetarium <ref>[http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/about/message Hayden Planetarium - About]</ref> and a member of the Planetary Society, but is not a professor. In 2014, Tyson was the host of 'Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey' <ref>[http://www.cosmosontv.com/ Cosmos]</ref> which is an updated version of the agnostic [[Carl Sagan|Carl Sagan's]] 1980 documentary entitled Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
'''Neil deGrasse Tyson''' is an astrophyicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium. He has become a very public figure, frequently speaking out on topics of science education and scientific literacy, in the mold of [[Carl Sagan]] from the 1980's and, more recently, [[Richard Dawkins]].
He has become a very public figure, having been featured on various popular media programs such as the [[History Channel]], where he has promoted his [[science|scientific]] [[worldview]].<ref>[http://bigthink.com/think-tank/neil-degrasse-tyson-atheist-or-agnostic Is Neil deGrasse Tyson an atheist or agnostic?]</ref> He is the director of the Hayden Planetarium <ref>[http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/about/message Hayden Planetarium - About]</ref> and a member of the Planetary Society, but is not a professor. In 2014, Tyson was the host of 'Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey' <ref>[http://www.cosmosontv.com/ Cosmos]</ref> which is an updated version of [[Carl Sagan|Carl Sagan's]] 1980 documentary entitled Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
==Speaking Out about Scientific Literacy and Science Education==
Since about 2015, Mr. Tyson has been very vocal about science education and scientific literacy. He believes that, for the United States to maintain its preeminence as a nation, it must maintain preeminence in science. He is particularly concerned about denial of evolutionary science and denial of anthropogenic climate change. He produced a video, published on Facebook on April 19, that states his concerns very directly.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/degrasse-tyson-science-deniers_us_58f99e89e4b06b9cb91572a1?f1l&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009</ref>
{{Cquote|Science is not something to say 'I choose not to believe E equals m c squared.' You don't have that option. When you have an established scientific emergent truth, it is true whether or not you believe it.|||Neil deGrasse Tyson, April, 2017}}
==Quote Fabrication Controversies==
==Quote Fabrication Controversies==
===Fabrication of a George W. Bush quote===
===Fabrication of a George W. Bush quote===
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Theory of relativity]]
*[[E=mc²]]
*[[Counterexamples to Relativity]]
*[[Essay:Rebuttal to Counterexamples to Relativity]]
*[[Irreligion and superstition]]
*[[Irreligion and superstition]]
*[[Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation]]
*[[Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation]]