I try to find value in everyone, but I cannot see much in him. So he's a science communicator, right? Problem is, he seems to just communicate elementary chemistry, biology, etc. and not the more complicated concepts that high schoolers and adults actually need help with. He professes to care about science, but if that is true then he wouldn't just be talking about creationism, flat-earth, and climate change all the time; he would be educating people on a much broader spectrum of concepts. He also mocks people for being skeptics, as he does with climate change a lot, even though skepticism is a core value of the scientific method. That's one problem, the other is that he allows the media to prop him up as some kind of expert when he has not shown to be one, on any topic. He's just featured in a lot of YouTube videos and talks, talking about science in America, answering people's questions, etc. even though he's not more than a random guy on most topics. Now people are putting their trust in him to answer some complex ethical/philosophical issues (such as abortion, science & morality, etc.) when his only merit is teaching science to children and helping design a thing for a plane and a Mars rover. This sways people toward a sort of argument from authority; people don't have a need to analyze his arguments because they think he's an expert, and nobody wants to argue with an expert. My point is, are his actions detrimental to scientific progress?
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The problems begin when less informed/critical people start taking people like Nye as authorities on science. Then a lot of scientifically unverified, but popular narratives can become a part of governmental policies, because a charismatic person who is taken seriously has a good chance to override the authority of actual, but less outspoken specialists.
And it is definitely true that attempts to silence skeptics, instead of genuinely engaging with them and proving them wrong, is harmful for science. However, it is worth noting that some skeptics simply cannot be reasonably interacted with. When someone who does not know elementary math starts talking about how all math is an irrelevant made up construct, for example, there is not much you can do to convince them otherwise: they are ignorant, but feign being informed, and in such cases mocking them is the only way to contest their authority left.
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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@MayCaesar True
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