warmshower

he's an actor not a mathematician cut him a break buddy.

I feel something that needs to be addressed is this:

If Wikileaks truly wanted what's best for America, why not release all sensitive information well in advance, to give the American population time to respond sensibly and soberly to leaked information? The timing of the leaks caused a lot of fear and uncertainty.

By timing leaks so close to the election, the logical implication is that Wikileaks explicitly wanted Donald Trump to win the election.

What makes you think it's acceptable for one organization to try to determine the outcome of a national election in this way? How do you defend the ethics of this?

Transparency is an incredibly valuable thing for democracy and I commend that element of your efforts, but knee-jerk reaction is ridiculously dangerous.

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Hopefully a grandfather

NO PRESSURE GATES KIDS

Preach it brother. His appearances on this topic were terribly non-scientific and just downright incorrect.

This severely tainted my view of the guy actually. That and the fact that IMO he overly represents his scientific cred in public in many ways. While it's good to be an ambassador to science, he is not himself a climate scientist, or energy industry expert or anything like that. When he's on a CNN shouting match "representing" the scientists, arguing against an equally-unqualified person on the other side of the debate, BOTH parties are creating the false impression that they are authorities on the matter.

He's an engineer turned entertainer. I recall him not correcting people who erroneously called him "Dr Nye", too (I think while guest hosting star talk?) and that also irks me.

I shouldn't understate - the value of science educators and ambassadors is tremendous. Just got ALWAYS be clear on when you are, and when you are not an expert on a topic, and have a healthy respect for the difference.

Now now let's be fair. Could also be a super villain. We need to have respect for all super-people