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Neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of americas leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i dont have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and im going to give what sounds like an easy sort of cop out answer, and it has to do with how science is taught ...

Thats an aspect of science, but its not the most important part of science. the most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. and if you think science is just that one research paper that reports the one result that you either like or dont like, no, thats not how science works. its notjust a block of facts. its not a block of facts nor is it any one research paper. if you have...

Neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of americas leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i dont have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and im going to give what sounds like an easy sort of cop out answer, and it has to do with how science is taught ...

Neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of americas leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i dont have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and im going to give what sounds like an easy sort of cop out answer, and it has to do with how science is taught ...

Or, even better yet, life as we dont know it. but we sort of know one of the fundamentals, i mean, the national academy of sciences�* recent report what is coming up next over the next decade in space exploration... by the way, we do that each decade, it is one of the things we are proudest of. its called a decadal survey. i know. we get together and say lets prioritise ten years�* of money. i know. and heres what they lay out for this one. they say, "the coming decades will set humanity dow...

And it has to do with how science is taught in the schools. its currently taught as a body of information, a satchel of facts that are imparted upon you and the you regurgitate that for an exam. thats an aspect of science, but its not the most important part of science. the most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. and if you think science is just that one research paper t...

But his mission goes much wider, to get us all to respect scientific fact. so hows that going? neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of americas leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i dont have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and im going to giv...

But its not the most important part of science. the most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an objective truth about this world. and if you think science is just that one research paper that reports the one result that you either like or dont like, no, thats not how science works. its notjust a block of facts. its not a block of facts nor is it any one research paper. if you have a brilliant idea and you te...

Yes, were going to get an answer in the sense that, i dont know if were alone, but in every way we can imagine were not alone we are going to perform experiments to test it. and thats whats going to unfold over the next years. and it seems to be... on mars and on the icy moons ofjupiter, where beneath its kept warm from stress from jupiters gravity and the tugging of other moons, deep beneath the frozen surface theres oceans of liquid water. and every place on earth we have liquid water, we have...

Regulations are being required in your childs school is really the protocols that you need to follow. i know that seems like a cop out answer, but theyre trying to keep the children and the kids safe. if that means masking indoors, if the school is in an area of substantial or high transmission, we talk about trying to approximate outdoors as much as possible with grade school aged kids, but im sure a lot of classes might also be held outside and that is great, there should be a lot of ventilati...