Why is Bill Nye seen as such a huge voice in the scientific world despite him only possessing a Bachelor's degree? Is it only because he had a popular TV show and now he's a "FuNNY MeMe xDDDD"? Or am I just missing something? No hate towards Nye though, just curious.
Why is Bill Nye seen as such a huge voice in the scientific world despite him only possessing a Bachelor's degree...
Alexander Parker
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Gavin Bailey
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Nathan Morgan
He's entertaining. That's it.
Charles Mitchell
No one apart from American millennials knows him
James Long
Most scientists make for crappy public speakers. Nye is very engaging. In addition, most professors only have time for teaching/research but not outreach. A small portion of people go around either drumming up support from the public, getting kids interested in science, or lobbying in congress.
Fun fact: one of my old professors didn't do a lot of research. Instead he would make trips to DC to lobby for more physics funding. He also helped get collab going between our university and others.
Nye fills many of these roles. Just because he doesn't have a PhD doesn't make him worthless. Some people even advocate not going for a PhD. One example is Freeman Dyson. I know I personally had an interest in physics in part due to Bill Nye.
Owen Gray
but he's actually wrong about a lot of things.
Asher Collins
don't talk shit about beakman's world
Nathaniel Parker
Because there's a tendency to shame people who speak out against science, but most people who like science are dumb as shit, so they think "liking science" means "not criticizing anyone who knows anything about science".
Alexander Brown
He isn't autistic and know how to be a huckster. Scientists are spaghetti ejectors usually.
Grayson Gonzalez
Primarily because Nye likes to go outside of his lane on many, many things.