Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a fake nerd. Um, what? After the - TopicsExpress



          

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a fake nerd. Um, what? After the initial brainsplode, the NR article that conflates the geek/fake geek divide with conservative/liberal political bias is, er, interesting. One part insecure hipsterism, one part unwarranted condescension, the two defining characteristics of self-professed nerds are (a) the belief that one can discover all of the secrets of human experience through differential equations and (b) the unlovely tendency to presume themselves to be smarter than everybody else in the world. Prominent examples include MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, Rachel Maddow, Steve Kornacki, and Chris Hayes; Vox’s Ezra Klein, Dylan Matthews, and Matt Yglesias; the sabermetrician Nate Silver; the economist Paul Krugman; the atheist Richard Dawkins; former vice president Al Gore; celebrity scientist Bill Nye; and, really, anybody who conforms to the Left’s social and moral precepts while wearing glasses and babbling about statistics.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:12:00 +0000

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