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Date: January 09, 2018 07:00PM
https://medium.com/christian-intellectual/why-bill-nye-is-not-a-scientist-and-why-it-matters-20b6e3fc3feeHere's a different view that I agree with:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-blurse-of-being-bill-nye-180967244/Not all scientists are professional scientists. So if your definition of a "scientist" is someone who does scientific research for a living, ok. Thomas Jeffferson was a scientist and so was Benjamin Franklin -- but they didn't make their living that way. But that's not the issue. The issue is if Bill Nye uses his scientific and engineering training and scientific reasoning to solve problems and explain things that are based in fact and that can be corraborated by others, the answer to that question is "yes."
If you don't want to accept things based on fact, that's your privilege but you can't just dismiss what Bill Nye says or teaches to kids just because he doesn't do it professionally as a scientist at a research institution.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/09/2018 07:03PM by anybody.