is it just me, or does this guy not seem that smart?
i can't tell if he's just dumbing things down, or if he's just dumb.
Is it just me, or does this guy not seem that smart?
Juan Rivera
Noah Lopez
He's a hack.
William Myers
He's one of those guys who has made low to middling contributions to the science but has been wildly successful at cultivating his own image and popular interest in astrophysics.
In short, he's decently smart. Smart enough to make a significant scientific impact? No. Smart enough to attract people to the field and gain funding? Yes.
Anthony Torres
>Low to Middling
That's being generous. Dude wrote a PhD dissertation and was 30th author on a few papers.
haydenplanetarium.org
Brayden Sanchez
He's very smart. He's also very good at getting people to like him and what he has to say. He's no Carl Sagan though.
Adam Robinson
You think he can differentiate and integrate with proficiency?
Xavier Hughes
youtube.com
If you want to cringe. Watch at 2x.
Jeremiah Torres
Couldn't say it any better than that. I think this article from his time at the University of Texas (he "mastered out" of a PhD program) offers very good insight into his persona and his career trajectory since.
alcalde.texasexes.org
>An obsessive focus on one thing at a time; a strong connection to pop culture, from the moonwalk to the Rubik’s cube; and a refusal to put research first: these traits contributed to Tyson’s failure at UT.
>Yet the same qualities that doomed Tyson as a UT graduate student also brought him the fame and success he enjoys today. His intense focus makes him a riveting public speaker; his cultural savvy is key to his teaching. And if he ever puts research before outreach, the world will see a lot less of him.
>So is the University. Astronomy professor Craig Wheeler remembers Tyson: “Research was not his strength. He was never going to solve any major scientific problems. But I knew he was going to do something big, because he had charisma. He’s warm and funny, but he also has serious backbone, ambition, confidence—and that’s taken him far.”
Logan Gutierrez
He's a mongloid
Charles Walker
Can there be any smart black people? Not racist when you consider that I'm black. I have an IQ of 128. That's above average at most.