On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson refused to say if Scientific American was wrong to claim that the differences between male and female athletes are due to biases and proclaimed “Let’s talk about science” while being questioned on the matter.
Host Bill Maher said that while he disagrees with the recent posts by now former Editor-in-Chief Laura Helmuth about the 2024 election, they weren’t really the scandal, “what I think is the scandal, this is in Scientific American, less than a year ago, ‘Inequity between male and female athletes is a result not of inherent biological differences between the sexes but of biases in how they are treated in sports.’ That’s nuts. And it sure ain’t scientific, and it’s in Scientific American. And that’s why the Democrats lost the election. It’s true.”
Tyson remarked…
