• x4740N@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    The only guy I like on this is Bob Ross and Mr Rogers

    I don’t even know who the guy is besides “want”

    ndt has sexual assault allegations

    bill nye is a engineer not a scientist and the science guy is only a stand up comedy act

    So, Is Bill Nye a Real Scientist?

    While Nye is absolutely an engineer, the Science Council defines a scientist as “someone who systematically gathers and uses research and evidence, to make hypotheses and test them, to gain and share understanding and knowledge.”

    ^ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/is-bill-nye-the-science-guy-really-a-scientist

    A program with an actual scientist is Scope with Dr Rob

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        And it’s still a comedy act, bill nye is qualified to be an engineer, not a scientist

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Bell

        Robert James Bell is a qualified scientist

        Trusting bill nye to teach science is like trusting your uncle bob who thinks he knows science to teach science

        nye should be teaching engineering, not science

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          So science teachers also shouldn’t teach science because they’re not scientists?

          That’s not what “qualified” means.

          People don’t need to meet the definition of being a scientist in order for them to be educating others on scientific topics.

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          He’s not teaching advanced science concepts, you don’t need a background in science to teach bog-standard science to children

          Science Guy is there to get kids excited about science, not to enforce scientific rigor

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      Bill nye isn’t a scientist but he still taught science and neither Ross nor rogers are scientists either so what’s the point of making that distinction then immediately ignoring it?

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        Yeah Ross and Rogers aren’t scientists, they thought different things

        Ross teaches art and Rogers teaches about values a lot of people in the united states should live by because the united states is a dystopian hell hole pioneered by bigots and capitalists

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      6 months ago

      And Jean Claude Van Damm was a dancer first. Who the hell cares? They inspire people to explore science and teach the fundamentals of science. Nowhere in the meme do they claim to be anything other than inspiration.