Neil deGrasse Tyson scolds cherry picking climate science
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says lawmakers and the media cherry pick scientific papers to reinforce political ideals on climate change and says it's irresponsible to create public policy...
========== Sonia you're not a primate scientist but
you're a very distinguished scientistand astrophysicist what do you think
about when people say look this is notsettled science there are still
questions I sometimes think to myselflook there are a lot of questions still
about Einstein's theories that led tonuclear fission but we still know that
nuclear power plants do operate and theydo provide electricity and yeah so
what's happening here is they're peoplewho have cultural political religious
economic philosophies that they theninvoke when they want to cherry-pick one
scientific result or another you canfind a scientific paper that says
practically anything and the press whichI count you as part of the press will
sometimes find a sing...