1. Neil deGrasse Tyson so uncannily replicates both the best and worst features of Carl Sagan that perhaps something bigger is at work.
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@HeerJeet Not the infuriating nitpicking? -
@DrNeilTyson@HeerJeet or the irritating pomposity
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@HeerJeet also anything politics-related i.e. nuclear winter theoryThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet turns out scientists are rarely historiansThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet What exactly is Whiggish about Tyson and Sagan’s ideas of history?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet no less dumb than any other public academic writing outside their discipline, Jared Diamond Henry Gates, Gary Becker, etc -
@HeerJeet Charles Murray would be other example, where I think has a poli-sci background and thinks that makes him sociologist/historian
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@HeerJeet this bears fleshing outThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Not to mention extreme Eurocentrism cc@naufalsanaullahThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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