Bill Nye has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He also once upon a time took an astronomy class taught by Carl Sagan. Since then, his entire career has been centered on “edutainment.” Yet he gets interviewed and quoted and TAKEN SERIOUSLY as a source for science stuff.
The latest was an interview at VOX where he said, “When you have people denying this basic process [man-made climate change], and how we all got here [undirected evolution], it’s offensive to me intellectually. And I happen to think it’s unpatriotic.”
Now, check out what source Mr. B.S. (MechEng) gives for that last bit.
“Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution says the government shall ‘promote the progress of science and useful arts’. So if you’re a politician looking to derail the progress of science, I think you’re not doing your job.”
Article I, Section 8 is the basis for patent law. He left out three-quarters of it.
“To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;”
Apparently, the Grand Poobah of Talking Points decided to celebrate Memorial Day by slamming right-wingers with “unpatriotic” and “dereliction of duty” accusations. (The latter was Obama’s line at the Coastie’s graduation.)
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polination.blog 
Here’s the thing about the whole AGW debate: it’s been nearly a decade since the release of “An Inconvenient Truth,” and in all that time has a single law been passed directly related to AGW? In ten years they’ve gained no political traction on this, so it just ain’t gonna happen.
Then why do they keep kicking this dead horse down the road? Politics!! Red meat for their base and constant reminders conservatives are stupid.
At this point no one’s really taking it seriously anymore, but Bill Nye just got his Kool Kids card stamped.
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I have a Big Fat Suspicion that those who salivate to have the U.N. take over the world plan to use it as the jackboot in the door of national sovereignty.
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