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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Introduction

As a kid, I loved Carl Sagan. He helped me appreciate the bigness of the universe. But he always wanted to emphasize science as a way of thinking about the world. Science was also this engine of immense technological production. And without any guardrails, he worried that it would not only threaten our environment and lead to the concentration of power in the hands of those who understood it.

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