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00:00:00.000The Democrats have now spent two generations explaining that the true threat to free speech resides on the religious right, those fascistic John Lithgow from Footloose types who just can't wait to smash their Bibles in the faces of those who only want to read their lesbian pornography magazines.
00:00:14.000In reality, there is only one side of the American political debate fully committed to destroying the First Amendment, the left.
00:00:19.000On Thursday, former head of the Democratic National Committee and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean tweeted this, quote, hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.
00:00:28.000This is ignorance of the highest order.
00:00:30.000Of course, hate speech is protected by the First Amendment.
00:00:33.000There are only a few categories of speech that aren't protected by the First Amendment.
00:00:36.000So-called fighting words, specific and deliberate calls to violence, child pornography, defamation.
00:00:41.000But there is no category of hate speech here for a simple reason.
00:00:44.000What you deem hate speech may be political speech you just don't like.
00:00:48.000In Canada, for example, the law has forced commentators like Mark Stein into court for criticizing Islam.
00:00:52.000This is a violation of freedom, and the First Amendment doesn't contemplate it.
00:00:56.000Using hate speech as a rubric for political speech you don't like is tyranny of thought.
00:01:00.000Dean's tweet came in response to a tweet from Stephen Greenhouse of the New York Times regarding Berkeley cancelling a speech from commentator Ann Coulter.
00:03:27.000So, here's what is interesting about what he's saying here.
00:03:30.000Number one, science does not define whether a nation is good or bad.
00:03:33.000Nazi Germany was actually pretty scientifically literate until they started banning Jews for Jewish science.
00:03:38.000They, I mean, they developed the V2 rocket, they developed all sorts of, they had several Nobel Prize winners, people who actually couldn't accept the Nobel Prize in science because the Germans didn't want them to.
00:03:49.000Science does not mean morality, but it is important to note one of the reasons that the United States has always been so scientifically advanced is because the United States was always a limited government place that didn't seek to suck resources out of the pocket of private industry and redistribute it.
00:04:02.000Redistributive nations have trouble with scientific patents.
00:04:06.000We've always been the world leader, or at least for the last century and a half, we've been the world leader in scientific patents.
00:04:11.000And that's also because there's a spirit of freedom that exists in the United States that does not exist in big government places elsewhere.
00:04:16.000DeGrasse Tyson won't talk about why it is that the United States is so scientifically advanced, he just sort of assumes it.
00:04:21.000He sort of assumes we're really scientifically advanced, but then he doesn't discuss why that is, because he's a big government guy who thinks there should be more social redistributionism, ignoring the fact that it is the lack of social redistributionism, it is the fact that there's a huge amount of private industry in the United States that has helped push science forward.
00:04:41.000But in this, the 21st century, when it comes time to make decisions about science, it seems to me people have lost the ability to judge what is true and what is not.
00:04:54.000What is reliable, what is not reliable.
00:04:56.000What should you believe, what should you not believe.
00:04:59.000And when you have people who don't know much about science, standing in denial of it, and rising to power,
00:05:10.000That is a recipe for the complete dismantling of our informed democracy.
00:05:34.000Okay, so here is the problem with some of what he is saying here.
00:05:37.000So, I agree that there are a lot of people who don't know what is true and what is not.
00:05:40.000I've spoken about this in a political sense.
00:05:42.000I speak about this with regard to facts all the time.
00:05:45.000You notice that he never talks about science that the left doesn't like, right?
00:05:48.000So he never talks about the science of abortion, right?
00:05:50.000He never talks about the science of child development.
00:05:52.000He never talks about the science regarding transgenderism and people who literally have the fantasy that people with chromosomes that say X and Y and are fully male can be female if we just give them hormone treatment and a few breast implants, right?
00:06:10.000Neil deGrasse Tyson, just like a lot of people who's expert in his field,
00:06:14.000And I know there are people who have questioned his expertise, but he knows more science than I do, so he's more expert than I am, so I'm not going to go into that, but I will say this.
00:06:22.000Neil deGrasse Tyson is a guy who has posited that there ought to be a country called Rationalia, where people who agree with Neil deGrasse Tyson get to vote on rational bases alone.
00:06:30.000What he's really calling for here is a scientific oligarchy.
00:06:55.000In fact, when it comes to the teaching of science and the teaching of creationism, I don't think they're incompatible, but I also am not sure that creationism should be taught in science class because I don't think it's a scientifically provable hypothesis.
00:07:05.000That being said, it is not my job to say to the American people that you on a local level cannot vote for how to raise your children.
00:07:12.000Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks that you should be able, he should be able, to tell you what your kids should learn and not learn.
00:07:19.000He's not worried about an informed democracy.
00:07:21.000Again, when Mike Pence says, let us demand that educators around America teach evolution, not as fact but as theory, what he's really saying is, let's stop using the federal government to cram down our version of what we think is true on local communities.
00:07:34.000I may believe in evolution the same way that DeGrasse Tyson does.
00:07:38.000But Pence is not wrong in the sense that it is a scientific theory, just as all theories are scientific theories.
00:07:43.000This has a lot of evidence to back it.
00:07:45.000It's a theory that is certainly not evidence-less, but the idea that schools should teach evolution exclusively in science and leave creationism for Bible class, I may agree with it.
00:07:56.000In a consenting democracy, people get to vote for what they want, and they may be informed about Neil deGrasse Tyson's opinions on evolution, and they can still deny it.
00:08:04.000Okay, even if they don't like what he's saying, they still have the right to deny it and they have the right to raise their children as they see fit on this score without reference to Neil deGrasse Tyson's opinions.
00:08:15.000He may not like it because he thinks that consent actually requires the children not learn, but it's that same consent that allows us to have a free country that allows for all the sorts of economic and scientific development that have occurred over time.
00:09:02.000In the 1970s, Paul Ehrlich was considered, this professor from Stanford, was considered the breaking wave of science.
00:09:07.000And anyone who said there was not going to be mass starvation across the planet thanks to scarcity of resources, those people were considered, quote, denialists, right?
00:09:14.000They were denialists who didn't understand the catastrophe that was going to spring upon Earth's environment.
00:09:20.000Not only did it not happen, resources got more plentiful, humans got smarter in how we were going to apply those resources, and now we have 7 billion people on the planet when 40 years ago we had half that.
00:09:30.000So the idea that we are going to... that, you know, science today is stopped.
00:09:36.000Like, science today is what it is, and in the 60s and 70s, you know, we were more respectful of science.
00:09:42.000I don't think we were more respectful of science in the 60s and 70s.
00:11:25.000The amount of, the amount of ire in his voice, you know, people who are denying scientific truth, is there anyone out there who's denying the scientific basis for science?
00:11:35.000Is there anybody who, like, who's the actual anti-science person?
00:11:38.000They may disagree with the conclusion that you're drawing, but who's out there going, hypothesis being tested, bad?
00:11:45.000But again, this is all designed to kind of raise your emotional needle, raise the emotional temperature, so then when he gets to his climate change point, you go, yeah, climate change!
00:11:53.000That's the thing that's super important and we should listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson's solutions.
00:12:13.000When you have an established scientific emergent truth, it is true whether or not you believe in it.
00:12:19.000And the sooner you understand that, the faster we can get on with the political conversations about how to solve the problems that face us.
00:12:29.000Okay, so, there's one line there that I do take issue with.
00:12:33.000He says, this is science, it's not something to toy with, it's not something to say, I choose not to believe in EMC squared, E equals MC squared, you don't have that option.
00:12:41.000Well, frankly, you do have that option.
00:12:50.000He should be making the convincing case as to why the science he is citing is important and true.
00:12:55.000And he should be putting that out there, as opposed to just railing against the wind about how there's all these people who don't like science.
00:13:21.000The established scientific consensus says that the Earth is warming.
00:13:24.000The established scientific consensus also says that human activity has been a large contributor to global warming.
00:13:30.000There's sort of deviation as to how much of global warming people attribute.
00:13:34.000Some people say 10%, some people say 30, some people say 50, but there's no question that there is some amount of human activity that has had an impact on the warming trend on the globe thanks to the greenhouse gas effect.
00:13:45.000The question is how large that effect is, and the question is what we are going to do about that.
00:13:50.000Okay, now all of that that I have just said is not denying the reality of global warming or human activity involving global warming, but he's not going to like what I say next.
00:13:57.000So Oren Kass, who's a columnist over at Foreign Policy Magazine, at the Manhattan Institute, he's written about this, and what he says is that the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the UN, consistently project real but manageable costs over the next century.
00:15:13.000Government regulations, international regulations that aren't going to be particularly effective that destroy vast swaths of the global economy right now.
00:15:21.000Now, one of the things I presume that he would oppose is additional fracking, even though natural gas is significantly friendlier for greenhouse gas emissions, for carbon emissions, than, for example, coal.
00:15:29.000Coal is really not great for carbon emissions.
00:15:42.000All of these things may not even be necessary, and again, we have to discuss whether they would do anything, and that's where there's a tremendous amount of uncertainty.
00:15:50.000So to pretend that science has now suggested a solution, or that science is very specific about the problem, is just not totally accurate.
00:15:57.000I'm going to talk a little bit more about this in one second, but first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Upside.com.
00:16:03.000So if you're a business traveler, and you like to, and you're traveling alone, right?
00:16:06.000You fly all over the country all the time,
00:18:25.000You are delaying the political solution that should have been established years ago.
00:18:36.000As a voter, as a citizen, scientific issues will come before you.
00:18:41.000And isn't it worth it to say, all right, let me at least become scientifically literate so that I can think about these issues and act intelligently upon them?
00:18:53.000Recognize what science is and allow it to be what it can and should be in the service of civilization.
00:19:02.000And what I love about this is that you see all these beautiful pictures of the American cities at night.
00:19:08.000You see the electricity throughout the American cities.
00:19:10.000What he doesn't say is that his solutions on global warming would likely shut down some of those cities.
00:19:14.000You see some of the electricity go out.
00:19:17.000It's this idea that the left likes to put out there that they are just pro-science and you are just anti-science if you disagree with their solutions.
00:19:28.000That the world is warming and that human activity has something to do with that.
00:19:32.000I don't have to agree on the solutions that he proposes, but if I don't agree on the solutions that he proposes, I assume he'll call me a denialist because obviously if I knew science, then I would agree with him.
00:19:41.000Okay, so I want to talk about President Trump and healthcare shape-up.
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