Forget Cosmos, Here's Further Confirmation of Neil Tyson's Tendency to Commit Taradiddles

While Neil deGrasse Tyson was rolling out the 13 episodes of Cosmos, we pointed out the many distortions and untruths woven into the program's narrative, pitting science against religion and promoting the idea that neither humanity nor planet Earth is in any way special. How likely was it that Tyson, in the rest of his public activities, has hewed to the truth on science, religion -- or, let's say, politics? Not likely, you would think.

So it's confirming and not all that surprising to read S...