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The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos: Fact and Fiction in Neil deGrasse Tysonn
The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos: Fact and Fiction in Neil deGrasse Tysonn
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The 2014 reboot of Carl Sagan’s classic 13-part series Cosmos struck a chord with viewers, garnered 12 Emmy Award nominations, and is headed straight into schools as a science teacher’s instructional aid. It’s also an agenda-driven vehicle for scientific materialism, casting religion as arch foe of the search for truth about nature and pressing its message that human beings occupy no special place in the universe.
An important new book from Discovery Institute Press, The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos: Fact and Fiction in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Landmark Science Series offers an urgently needed critique and response to Dr. Tyson’s propagandizing and distortions.
Students encountering this series in the classroom need to be prepared. Neil Tyson seems to be blind, dangerously so, to how his own biases twist what he imparts to viewers. Tyson’s passionate defenders try to spin each invention by Dr. Tyson as an isolated goof. Don’t we all make mistakes?
Certainly, but in Tyson’s case it seems that a particular narrative about the cosmos and our place in it persistently guides how he understands science and history, resulting in a mélange of fact and fiction that he passes along to impressionable young people. Amazingly, science historians have considered giving Tyson a pass for circulating "taradiddles" — untruths — because it was all for a good cause!
Contributors Casey Luskin, Jay W. Richards, Douglas Ell, and David Klinghoffer dissect each episode of the new Cosmos, explaining where Tyson turns from objective science to science-flavored, fact-challenged preaching for a tendentious, corrosive worldview. Students, parents, and teachers will find a useful counterpoint in this lively viewers’ guide.
An important new book from Discovery Institute Press, The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos: Fact and Fiction in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Landmark Science Series offers an urgently needed critique and response to Dr. Tyson’s propagandizing and distortions.
Students encountering this series in the classroom need to be prepared. Neil Tyson seems to be blind, dangerously so, to how his own biases twist what he imparts to viewers. Tyson’s passionate defenders try to spin each invention by Dr. Tyson as an isolated goof. Don’t we all make mistakes?
Certainly, but in Tyson’s case it seems that a particular narrative about the cosmos and our place in it persistently guides how he understands science and history, resulting in a mélange of fact and fiction that he passes along to impressionable young people. Amazingly, science historians have considered giving Tyson a pass for circulating "taradiddles" — untruths — because it was all for a good cause!
Contributors Casey Luskin, Jay W. Richards, Douglas Ell, and David Klinghoffer dissect each episode of the new Cosmos, explaining where Tyson turns from objective science to science-flavored, fact-challenged preaching for a tendentious, corrosive worldview. Students, parents, and teachers will find a useful counterpoint in this lively viewers’ guide.
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