Idaho radio host gets epic beatdown from Neil deGrasse Tyson [View all]

Say what you will about Neil deGrasse Tyson. That he’s a Christmas-loathing Scrooge. That he picks on “Star Wars.”

Or that the $85 tickets to his June performance at the Morrison Center in Boise were too spendy for the proletariat. (Steve Martin and Martin Short suddenly make Tyson’s tickets look like bargain-bin pricing.)

Just don’t call Tyson “a horse’s astrophysicist” and follow it up with flawed reasoning.

Idaho Falls conservative talk-show host Neal Larson discovered this the hard way.

In a piece published in the Magic Valley Times-News — in which he refers to the rock-star science spokesman as a “jackass” — Larson clumsily attempts to criticize the celebrity brainiac. Worse yet, he gets facts wrong.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/words-deeds/article97410952.html

Cross-posted in the Science Group.