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Steak-umms and Tyson are beefing. Not the frozen chicken nuggets brand. Rather, it’s the famous (and infamously insufferable) astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the two are hashing it out over matters of epistemology, the validity and scope of scientific fact, and its correspondence with objective truth.
The twitter feud began with Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeting “The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it. This declaration could be a dig at COVID-deniers or anti-vaxers or climate deniers. Or it could just be Tyson being a jerk. In comic fashion, the beef vendor decided to weigh in on the matter:
The 2018 feud between the Steak-umm Twitter account and Neil deGrasse Tyson reignited a couple of days ago. Steak-umm took exception to one of Tyson’s tweets, responding to his statement that “science is true, “whether or not you believe in it” with “log off bro.” Featured Video Hide Advertisement Hide
Shots fired. The Steak-umm Twitter account went on to expand on their initial tweet, explaining their reasoning for asking Tyson to step away from the internet for the day. By oversimplifying science and presenting it as dogma rather than a process, he was just going to increase skepticism during an already dangerously high period of science denial.