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When uploaded to Netflix, an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" cut out a segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender.
[...] While noncontroversial at the time, the 1996 segment appears to contradict Netflix's new series "Bill Nye Saves the World."
The new show endorses a socially liberal understanding of gender, under which gender is defined by self-identification rather than genetics and there are more than just the two traditional genders.
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Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @12:46PM (4 children)
All I thought when I saw that title on the Netflix screen was "Can Bill Nye get any more full of himself?" Maybe it's because I grew up with Mr. Wizard well before Bill Nye came about but I never understood how this guy managed to recently appoint himself as a spokesman for my generation and be such an ass while doing it. Maybe if he maintained the level of decorum that Neil deGrasse Tyson has (although I'm still cross with him over the Pluto incident) I'd be more willing to listen to him these days.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 05 2017, @01:27PM
That fight was coming sooner or later. If we hadn't started discovering a handful of the hundreds of icy KBOs/TNOs, imagery of Ceres [wikipedia.org], an "asteroid" with a rounded body in hydrostatic equilibrium, might have sparked that debate. It could have become the 5th planet from the Sun.
Eris is slightly smaller but more massive than Pluto, and Neptune's moon Triton is both larger and more massive than Pluto, and could be a captured KBO. Their existence implies that we will find more objects larger than Pluto (not counting Planet Nine).
The IAU and Michael E. Brown are more significant "Pluto killers" than Tyson.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 05 2017, @02:56PM (2 children)
Neil deGrasse Tyson's ego is a big as anyone's. TV tends to do that to people. I remember when it was Carl Sagan.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @04:39PM (1 child)
This may be the case, but some peoples heads become so large than it becomes visible.
I'll take your word on Sagan. He was before my time though I've watched a vast amount of material from him. In it, he never once seemed to be talking down to people or putting his ego ahead of his capabilities. There was even one clip I recall, I believe in the leadup to Cassini, where he quite readily made fun of his own falling a bit out of touch with the 'hardcore science' as they were filming him with a number of other scientists. Bill Nye, sadly, just seems like an ego driven poser. Watching his debates on climate change are so frustrating since he refuses to admit when he's unaware of certain things, yet his insincerity is incredibly visible. That insincerity strongly undermines everything else he says, and now his reputation has been just about completely destroyed by 'something very special.' Sad to see - I had fond memories of his show as a child. Neil deGrasse I'd agree with you on. He's very knowledgeable, but the spotlight has given him an ego bigger than Jupiter. Once he steps off the pedestal, literally, though he is a lot more sociable. There's a great 'free form' interview with him on the Joe Rogan podcast.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:14PM
Bill Bye is an entertainer and shouldn't be given the status that he is. His AMA on reddit was supremely disappointing but he's treated like a rock star that can do no wrong. Tyson is similar, damn egos are out of control.
I'm Neil Degrasse FUCKING Tyson bitches!!!
You just know he screams that in the shower or when reading twitter and someone calls him out.
But seriously thank god we actually have some pop scientist personalities.