Let's settle it, is he confirmed brainlet?

He did manage to go to Columbia, so congrats on that. But he seems very unconcerned with conducting original research. He's become more of a science cheerleader than anything at this point. I think there are a great many dumber people than him, but for a Columbia graduate who discusses science every day, he doesn't participate very much in the process. He's probably in the lower tier of Columbia PhD in that respect, but he was smart enough to get a good career popularizing science.

there was a thread two days ago where someone implied cancer and aging occurred through the same biological mechanism and i almost had a heart attack. this was before he recommended elephants as a model organism for curing cancer (and aging)

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He's actually very well read and incredibly knowledgeable but he decided to meme with popsci instead of making anything useful out of his intellect. He uses his brain to spout shit we already know.

Stuff that you already know, but the average dumbfuck who denys climate change doesn't know. Bringing science to the masses through a show on fox is a valuable endeavour

I think once he became a celebrity he decided to Bill Nye it and be a spokesperson for science and IMO there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

He's not retarded, but he's not a brilliant mind to be celebrated.
He's a pop scientist who spouts off cool-sounding factoids like a buzzfeed article. That's all.

There are some really, genuinely smart people. There are a ton of kinda smart people who think they're hot shit geniuses when they're just above-average. There's also no shortage of really average and sub-par people here, and many of them think they're at least smarter than average simply because they're knowledgeable and surrounded by people they refuse to think about long enough to see they're no better than them.

No, he's fairly smart. It's hard to say he's a brainlet when he has a PhD and worth a couple million dollars.

He's basically what a majority of Veeky Forums browsers want to become (minus the memes). At this point it's mostly """purists""", undergrads and jealous wagecucks hating on him.

I've got no problem with him and would do the same thing he's doing (except with doing personal projects on the side) now.

You misread him pretty badly then.

Most people on Veeky Forums don't really understand what he does in his current role and/or vastly underappreciate its importance.

He's basically a PR guy for science, but as i understand it, he's done a fair bit of legitimate science in the past.

Yes, PR is important. His work directly influences public and private spending on scientific research. He's probably gotten rich private benefactors and high level public officials to sign over a minimum of tens of millions of dollars to science and scientific research around the world.

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>no velociraptor option
It's like they want you to lose..

>but as i understand it, he's done a fair bit of legitimate science in the past

His own web site suggests otherwise...

The true intellectuals of society don't write about how unrealistic the new star wars is.

Ed Witten doesn't give his opinion on popular culture because he literally has better things to do.

He's still the director of the Hayden Planetarium and makes content for that (really good content to be honest). That plus being a celebrity, he doesn't need to do boring research work anymore.

Purist = Pure Meth (Math) fags?

all niggers are brainlets

Climate change isn't actually real though, wtf I thought there were smart people here

if 9000000get I am a brianlet

He seems to have a lot of European admixture. Just something I've noticed.

As for his IQ? Hard to say, but three standard deviations from the mulatto mean (93) seems reasonable. So about 138.

>Tfw you perfectly know how full of shit the normie entertainment you're creating is, and you're thinking about the escort and the coke waiting for you right outside of the studio

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Look at his twitter and you will confirm his retardation

Don't mind me, looking for the get

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thanks you are a good positive force on this board

>That plus being a celebrity, he doesn't need to do boring research work anymore.
What the fuck are you doing on Veeky Forums?

>"science"

I'm just hear to shitpost

there are no infinites besides God

t. Descartes

He is kind of right. For a large species it has relatively low incidence of cancer. It possess 50 times more copies of p53 than humans, which explain their decreased incidence of cancer.

It's literally just /pol/ hating on him, so yes brainlets and manual labor scum.

>>/pol/
he hates talking about race. if the conversation or interview at hand deals with race he will flat out walk out of the interview.

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This.

Honestly, he's not a bad ambassador to normals. And, from what I've heard of him, he's not a bad guy. I've been around scientists that are just absolute snobs who I wouldn't invite to anything.

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what's bill nye doing there?
Bill nye is creating trannies wtf

Yeah, I agree with this. The only people who really think he's stupid are people who are envious of his fame or disagree with him politically and hate that he uses his fame to push his politics.
IMO he has the same problem that famous science advocates like Nye or even Dawkins have. The fame goes to their heads, and they start to think that their opinions are more important than they are. They decide to give their stance on topics that are clearly outside of their field because a large enough amount of the public has treated them like general authorities, but even a slightly educated person can see through it (if they want to).

He isn't the smartest guy ever but he is still extremely smart. What idiots and underage here don't understand is that it is more important that he is a good science communicator than that he is the smartest scientist ever.

So, are you atheist?

God, I hope you're joking, user.

Link or I'm going to have to assume it's right-click inspect.

Are you literally retarded?

That's how it everywhere on Veeky Forums, what's new.

>Come to board
>Lurk for a few weeks
>Begin to understand basics
>Parrot basics and then segue off into your own retarded bullshit
>Have fun for a month, then leave

Rinse and repeat. I'd confidently wager that at least half of any board's poster population is at stage 4 of that process at any given time.

He's more qualified to talk about science than like ~90% of the posters here.

>there are five "levels of infinity"
>infinity
>infinity + (x>0)
>infinity + * (x>0 x=/=0)
>infinity - (xinfinity - * (x

He was referring to cardinalities, of which there are infinitely many

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality

I consider him to be a performer who happens to like popsci. Much like Bill Nye.

Tests and degrees are only given to obedient people. There's not much brain power needed for obedience.

I'm 43 and still think I'm hot shit. Sorry to blow out your theory. Have your balls even dropped yet, nutlet?

>I have seen them solve some not easy problems.

Knowing your way around google & wolfram alpha really is a patrician skill isn't it?

>being 43 and still using meme insults like nutlet

Young folk having a big ego is understandable. At your age that's a sign of dementia.

His memesci brought many people into science, especially young people.

That alone is a very useful thing, trust me you will not be impressed by a sperg, autist conference about a scientific discovery - but if black science guy presented it to you - that would be entirely different.

Science field needs people like him, it's not like his presence consumes resources in the field... or diminishes the power of research.

Let's be open minded there are multiple teachers around the world, that have studied their field and never participated with a breakthrough or scientific paper but they helped shape scientists that done so.

Humans need mentors, motivators to keep going in a direction.

The people who need popsci to become interested in science will not be the ones making scientific discoveries

Holy fuck...

No, in fact he is one of the smartest man alive.

He is smart for a nigger.

He has published papers, some fairly influential, and he is legitimately capable - in astrophysics.

Most normal physicists, if asked about something well outside of their field of study, will tell you they don't know. Hell, most won't even know their entire field,and won't claim to. doesn't make them brainlets, it just means they're focused on their particular field.

I think the problem with Pop-sci figures is that they regularly get pressed on questions well outside their expertise, and in order to remain "that there guy which knows stuff," they can't give a crowd a null answer. they end up giving overly ambiguous answers that lead to public speculation, or making outright false statements.

same is true of parents with kids, that kind of thing.

no, but the people who need popsci vote for politicians that approve our funding.