Seven weeks into the Great Cosmos Reboot -- the halfway point, yay! -- and Neil deGrasse Tyson is still insisting that science is real. What is with this guy? This week's episode, "The Clean Room," starts off with some pretty blatant science-based hatemongering toward creationists, if by "hatemongering" you mean "explaining why they're wrong." After a brief animated teaser about how Clair "Pat" Patterson's research into the true age of the Earth eventually led him to start seeing the potential for sickness all around him, Tyson says that to really understand Patterson' work, you need to start at the beginning -- of the Solar System, that is. Thankfully, there will be some parts where he summarizes.
I had thought that the tobacco industry was the first to employ professional liars, but it seems that the oil companies got there first.