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Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy (futurism.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, he did this in Colbert’s show, which was kinda done in jest/humor. Having said that, the guy does like to “ackchually” stuff a lot, even for fictitious things. And he definitely was his usual smug self even though it was a comedy bit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

This is all a bit of harmless fun beginning to end, but this is such a model of misinformation it loops around to being actually fascinating.

Harmless event>fair but misleadingly titled article>social media responding to the headline. There's some worm life cycle for you. Simultaneously elegant and horrifying.