Starry Messenger, Neil deGrasse Tyson

April 17, 2023 Kim Love
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Starry Messenger Neil deGrasse Tyson 2.5 Stars Ugh. I find myself, at least once every chapter, OK-Boomer-ing Neil in my head. As in, “OK, Neil, there’s no justification for an atheist harshing an astronaut’s Christian mellow.” Or “OK, Neil, the fact that the universe (and beyond) is immense totally makes social justicing an irrelevant annoyance.” I get that he thinks, reasonable even, that it’s superior to actually use science and reason as the basis of things (legislation, personal ethics, political actions, social policies, you name it). But he fails to acknowledge that even science and data can and always have been bent to the strongest personalities in the room. And Neil’s is always the strongest personality in his room. 4/9/23