People have hijacked that urge to recognize that something that repeats must be true. They've hijacked it. Now they just find something that they want to be true, and they repeat it to you. That's hijacking this feature of our evolutionary brain that it's trying to create order out of chaos.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is the host of the weekly show “Star Talk” on National Geographic and the head of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He has a new book “Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization” out now.
Neil deGrasse Tyson joins the show to chat with Theo about cosmic musings, the new space race, facts vs. feelings, flat-earthers, climate change and much more.