"This is what happens when you live in a prescientific era. The blame game begins," he says. "I've always kind of battled the dark arts overall, so it's like, I've never really looked at a ton of the facts." He doesn't think his book came off as heavy-handed or trying to convince people that certain things are true.
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.