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Director of the hayden planetarium in new york and tonight fox will be premiering his series "cosmos." a prime time network television show about science. pretty amazing. neil, welcome to the program. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to talk all about "cos mos" in a moment but do you think there is a war on science and how do you think we can broker a peace? >> our civilization, our civilization is built on the innovations of scientists and technologists and engineers who have shaped everything that we so take for granted today. so some of the science deniers or haters, these are people tell...

Understanding of what science is. there are people who already like science. we got them. and power to them. then the people who don't know they like science. all right. they have a little flame inside of them of curiosity which we're going to fan that flame and it will rise up within them. then another category of people, the people who know they don't like science. they got no flame at all. so we're going to go in there light it and show them the majesty and the beauty and glory of science and how it is come -- how people searchers for cosmic truths over the centuries and millenia have arriv...

Some of their hosts are flat out mean spirited towards tea party members, conservatives, whether congressmen or senators or pundits. >> do you hear nasty things about the president ob fox? do you feel the same language is used on fox as on msnbc? >> we're going through a media moment who have republicans calling the president weak and feckless. to suggest the mean language is only coming from the liberal side of the ledger is absurd. we can all pull our favorite examples of outrageous things that any host ever said. i don't think it's that simple as black and white. >> thank you both for joini...

Welcome back to "reliable sources." we know we live in a politically divided country, where almost anything is fair game for snipers on both sides. science, shouldn't science be immune? after all it's called scientific facts for a reason and yet there are millions of climate deniers, evolution deniers, vaccine deniers. in a speech on climate change president obama summed up the war on science this way. i don't have much patience for anyone who denies this challenge is real. we don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society. >> many americans agree with them. many other americans see s...

That it's true whether or not you believe in it. all right. i guess you can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth. >> give me an example of how you on this show tried to show the truth of science. >> no. i mean everything is the latest science tivg understanding of everything. that's just a given. the real messages of the show, now that you see the what the science is, how does it matter? how and why does it matter to you? what context. so the science is context allized if you will. one of the most stunning visuals is the cos...