Neil deGrasse Tyson is an example of the poor excuse the US has for public intellectuals these days.

Rationality simply cannot be the basis for any political organization. Evidence? Whose evidence? On what basis? Applied to whom?

Especially in a world where something like half (or fewer) of studies are not reproducible, and no one (not even many scientists) are sure what constitutes evidence, what sort of society would “Rationalia” create?

Economists believe they have evidence for supporting all manner of preposterous and contradictory policies. There was incontrovertible “evidence” for the inferiority of blacks, the degenerate nature of Jews, the unsuitability of women for holding political office.

I wish NDGT would just shut the hell up. His thoughts are always a waste of space, particularly because he could be so much better.