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Neil deGrasse Tyson has the appropriate perspective...

solus

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"In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical errors / 300 to the Flu / 250 to Suicide / 200 to Car Accidents / 40 to Homicide via Handgun. Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data."
 

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Alas Solus, you are getting the pictures and taking action....kudos.....ect.......

Color is not old, he's just ripened
 

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And, because the LWWs reamed Tyson a "new orifice" for those facts, he was forced into an apology several hours later.
 

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When they did the remake of "Cosmos" a couple of years ago with Tyson trying to replace Carl Sagan (and failing!), the episodes were heavy into PC Earth "science" (recycling, climate change, etc.) and Tyson was a little "preachy".
 

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If it's not drenched in emotion, the sheep and useless idiots lose their heads. His statement is a simple, logical, true statement, without emotion injected into it. They can't process that kind of information.
 
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