Neil deGrasse Tyson on "Cosmos," how science got cool, and why he doesn't debate deniers.

"...The stance of Cosmos, Tyson emphasizes, is not anti-religion but anti-dogma: “Any time you have a doctrine where that is the truth that you assert, and that what you call the truth is unassailable, you’ve got doctrine, you’ve got dogma on your hands. And so Cosmos is … an offering of science, and a reminder that dogma does not advance science; it actually regresses it.”...


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