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→Quote Fabrication Controversies: Adding a new section on how Tyson is a source of misinformation.
Nor it is clear why Tyson objects to the term "360-degree turn". A politician might well reverse his views on an issue twice, and that could be described as a 360-degree turn.
Nor it is clear why Tyson objects to the term "360-degree turn". A politician might well reverse his views on an issue twice, and that could be described as a 360-degree turn.
==Tyson's bad history, bad math and bad physics==
Tyson is becoming known as a source of misinformation. This is in spite of [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/24/what-makes-an-accusation-wiki-worthy/ Tyson's fans actively censoring news they don't like].
===Tyson's Bush and Star Names story===
For eight years Tyson gave an account of President Bush's 9-11 where Bush "attempted to distinguish we from they". When [http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html Bush's actual speech] was a call for tolerance and inclusion. It turns out that Tyson conflated Bush's eulogy for the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts with his 9-11 speech. However in neither speech did Bush attempt to distinguish Christians from Muslims.
===Tall tales about Newton===
Tyson [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=danYFxGnFxQ tells a story about Newton] where a friend asks Newton about elliptical orbits. Newton goes home, invents integral and differential calculus and the comes back two months later with the answer. And then Newton turns 26. Halley's question about elliptical orbits is famous and well documented. Halley asked Newton this question when Newton was 41. Newton came back two years later with the rough draft for Principia and Principia was published when Newton was 45.
It is thought that Newton developed his calculus ideas when he was in his twenties. But if not because of a "dare" from Halley, what prompted him? Mostly likely it was his colleague Isaac Barrow. Barrow, Fermat, Cavalieri and others and already laid the foundations of calculus in the generation before Newton and Leibniz.
See [https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/why-doesnt-he-just-shut-up/ Thony Christie disembowel Tyson's bad history].
===More transcendentals than irrationals===
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhHtBqsGAoA&feature=youtu.be&t=1125 Tyson told Joe Rogan] there are more transcendentals than irrationals. Since the set of transcendental numbers is a subset of the set of irrationals, this is not possible. Both sets are thought to have the same cardinality.
===Deflategate===
Tyson accused the New England Patriots of cheating by under inflating their footballs. However [https://news.avclub.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-bungles-science-of-deflate-gate-sca-1798276120 Tyson plugged gauge pressure into the ideal gas equation] instead of absolute pressure. Perhaps forgivable from a freshman physics student taking a pop quiz. But this was a serious and public accusation and Tyson had plenty of time to check his work.
The above are not isolated incidents. There are many examples of Tyson speaking with an air confidence and authority on subjects he knows little about.
== See also ==
== See also ==