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And it has to do with how science is taught in the schools. it's currently taught as a body of information, a satchel of facts that are imparted upon you and the you regurgitate that for an exam. that's an aspect of science, but it's 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 don't like, no, that's not how science works. ...

But his mission goes much wider, to get us all to respect scientific fact. so how's that going? neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of america's 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 don't have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and i'm going to give what sounds like an easy sort of cop out answer,

But it's 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 don't like, no, that's not how science works. it's notjust a block of facts. it's not a block of facts nor is it any one research paper. if you have a brilliant idea and you test it and it unearths so much of what has been known before, we're going to double check that, ...

Yes, we're going to get an answer in the sense that, i don't know if we're alone, but in every way we can imagine we're not alone we are going to perform experiments to test it. and that's what's going to unfold over the next years. and it seems to be... on mars and on the icy moons ofjupiter, where beneath it's kept warm from stress from jupiter's gravity and the tugging of other moons, deep beneath the frozen surface there's oceans of liquid water. and every place on earth we have liquid water, we have life. so one of nasa's mantras, and the european space agency, among others in this group,...

Regulations are being required in your child's school is really the protocols that you need to follow. i know that seems like a cop out answer, but they're 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 i'm sure a lot of classes might also be held outside and that is great, there should be a lot of ventilation. even rapid testing, if done serially, can pick up even asymptomatic cases. there needs to be ...