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It's psychology, Bob. No one really likes to think someone else might actually be smarter than them. So, if you want to tap into that resentment (for purely political purposes), you paint people such as Tyson and colleagues and the others as "elitist snobs" and vilify everything they say and do as part of some sort of sinister plot.
This article is the National Reviews version of "Two Minutes Hate" and Neil DeGrasse Tyson is "Goldstein".
See how that works?
Dave
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"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
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