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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 20, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos and “the artistic license to lie”

Denyse O'Leary
January 20, 2019
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
One thing readers may not know is that, in a series that leaned heavily on the supposed conflict between religion and science, obvious and widely noted misrepresentations were excused in the service of a “greater truth” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2018
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Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science
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Larry Krauss? Francisco Ayala? And now Neil deGrasse Tyson?

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2018
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

No, they haven’t all come to their senses and seen that of course the frame of reality we live in is designed. Like Larry Krauss and Francisco Ayala, astronomer and science popularizer Tyson has been #MeToo’d: Dr. Katelyn N. Allers, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Bucknell University, told me that she was “felt up” by Tyson at an after-party following a meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in 2009. AAS didn’t have a mechanism for reporting sexual harassment at the time, but Dr. Allers says she probably would report the incident if it had happened today … David G. McAfee, “Two More Women Accuse Neil deGrasse Tyson of Sexual Misconduct” at Patheos Readers will remember Tyson from Read More ›