Idaho radio host gets epic beatdown from Neil deGrasse Tyson
Say what you will about Neil deGrasse Tyson. That he’s a Christmas-loathing Scrooge. That he picks on “Star Wars.”
Or that the $85 tickets to his June performance at the Morrison Center in Boise were too spendy for the proletariat. (Steve Martin and Martin Short suddenly make Tyson’s tickets look like bargain-bin pricing.)
Just don’t call Tyson “a horse’s astrophysicist” and follow it up with flawed reasoning.
Idaho Falls conservative talk-show host Neal Larson discovered this the hard way.
In a piece published in the Magic Valley Times-News — in which he refers to the rock-star science spokesman as a “jackass” — Larson clumsily attempts to criticize the celebrity brainiac. Worse yet, he gets facts wrong.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/words-deeds/article97410952.html
Cross-posted in the Science Group.
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