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public distrust and finances on the right side of this information continues to flourish online. so how do we win the battle for evidence based? true, and then up front, special. i'll ask where now and astro physicist the autograph, type the near the graph, tyson, thank you so much for joining us. an upright. delighted to be with you. thanks for having me. there's a poll that says that over a quarter of americans don't believe that climate change is caused by human activity and 6 percent. don't believe it's happening at all right. there's another one that says over quarter of americans are skeptical of vaccines. now you actually just produce a documentary on misinformation. they're going to ask you when the science in scientific facts become something that's up for public debate. yeah, and so i hate to just sound so obvious about this, but part of it is a failure of the educational system which teaches science as a sort of

a satchel of facts that you sort of pour into the empty vessel that you are as you sit there in the classroom and you and you're given this fat book and there are these words that are boldface. and you gotta remember, i remember those words for the exam, and then you move on. and at no time, really, i think not even in the lab sections of classes, do you really deeply learn what science is and how and why it works. and so if somebody comes out with a research result that's intriguing or controversial, depressed typically rushes towards it. but it's not really an authentic result until it's verified by other researchers because there could be bias manifested within it. maybe the wall current fluctuated when they got their result. anything could have happened. so fundamental feature of science is that whatever result you

get, i'm going to try to verify it or falsify it, alright, effect, i might be a competitor of yours and i don't trust anything the i that i'm going to do it myself. okay. i got the same result and somebody in another country does it somebody with a different might. and then once you get agreement of these research results, then you have an objective truth. but if you only sampled science on that bleeding frontier, that messy frontier, you would think we didn't know what the hell we were doing at any time when it's a feature of science that we have these, that frontier information is contested. your book start messenger, cosmic perspective civilization. you say that certain beliefs about science become true in people's minds when they are constantly repeated in the media. and you call this a fundamental feature of propaganda. talk to me a little bit about this propaganda. where did these police come from? and what's the primary source of the propaganda as you put it in,

who's the most culpable outside of the media itself? thank you. great question. you know, i tried to think what is truth mean, and i don't want to usurp the word and give it only one definition because then you get into fights. so wanna give people how they use the word. so i split the, the kingdom of truths into 3 categories. so one of them is objective truths. these are the, these are things that are true, whether or not you believe in them. and the methods and tools of science are exquisitely tuned to establish objective truths in this world, then is personal truths. these are true that are true to you, but you, they may not be true to some one else is jesus, your savior is mohammed your last prophet on earth? these are your personal truth. and in a free country, no one can take those away from you. a 3rd kind of truth, i call it political truth is just something that becomes true in your head simply because it's repeated so often. and we have this system which evolved to say

to ourselves, well, if we hear something often it must be true. otherwise, why would it happen that often? and so the brain, we wires, is it. yep, that's the truth. and this is the soul a propaganda. so what's our response to that? i'm thinking specifically. for example, during the pandemic, when you had people spreading all kinds of misinformation online, not just people. ah, who said this isn't so bad, right? but people who are actually promoting, i've met in, ah, hydro chloral quinn as actual miracle cures for coven. i mean, that's dangerous stuff. all of this stuff is happening in a, in a sphere on line the political sphere sometimes in a white house press room, even when this stuff is happening. what should be our response? should we be regulating speech online? i'm not talking about, oh, just saying people don't have a right to express their opinions. okay. but so what about this other stuff?

there's a whole chapter in the book called risk and reward. and i make the point, which i'm going to make here, that our brains, the human brain, is not natively wired to think statistically, or probabilistically about anything. ok. and some people know this and fully exploit this fact. and so they've created what we call casino. it's to completely exploit our inability to understand probability and statistics. they exploit this fact and they take your money and you go home without it. ok, but typically that's what happens. and so because we don't think statistically about it, we think anecdotally about it. and this infuses in all decisions we make in our lives. and what we say, wow, i don't trust the cdc, but i'm going to trust my aunt matilda. well, i'm gonna trust this guy on the internet and you know what sells on a youtube?

just watch that. okay, you ready? it's at the establishment thinks this, but what i have is actually true and they don't want you to know it. oh my gosh, if you lead off your youtube video that way. millions of views guaranteed. there's something about doing something that is not the establishment that is irresistibly attractive to us and i don't full, i'm not a psychologist, i don't fully understand it, but it's pernicious in our environment and it could be the seeds of the unraveling of an informed democracy. there's another pasted this though, because i agree with you. there are people who say, look, you can't trust the state, you can't trust the government. you can't trust the establishment because i had this great story, this great anecdote that appeals more to your desires, true. but then there are legitimate reasons, not to trust the establishment. i'm thinking, for example, about the history of medical abuse in medical racism in the united states. i'm thinking about other tuskegee studies ah, ah, i'm thinking about of

a low point in the medical, any annals of medical treatment. absolutely. and from williams, the sake of course, that's the study that started in the 19 thirty's when black men were left to die untreated of syphilis. a we've indigenous people who are used the subject for tuberculosis vaccine trials, also in the 30s. and in the seventy's, thousands of indigenous women were also forcibly sterilized. so against the backdrop of that, for example, there's a legitimate reasons why a certain community, certain people, or maybe all of us say, look, i can't trust the establishment. that's why i'm vaccine hesitant. how do we actually ways to do that? so you say, especially in the black community, or what if you worried that the vaccines oh, you know, ah, what if you're worried about their weather go harm you. and there is some racist motive for it because of this, these cases in the past, what you do is step in the vaccine line between 2 white people, half at the, through the solution. it's not going to make light of these re,

very real problems that, that are institutionalized racism, sexism, and practically every other ism has manifested. yes. ok, you have to ask yourself is the reason to never trust anything they ever do since? and if so this is, this is sort of a cancellation principles that have been rampant in, especially in social media. so if, if an institutional one thing wrong, if you don't trust anything they do. yeah. but it's not that one thing. it's, there's a fundamental belief that the state, as such, almost by definition is untrustworthy. that's a different position in. oh, you missed that one. isn't about a saying, the medical establishment scientific establishment, the politicization of medicine is untrodden. i grew up. yeah. you know, i mean, yes, yes, it's hard. line them up. so you line them up. he said, that's bad. and they, we were deceived. yes. now, next to that, make a list of achievements earned by the state. ok. look at

the distribution of the polio vaccine and how many lives were stay, stay look at the statistics of that. look at the increased longevity of the human species everywhere in the world brought about by advances in medical technologies and, and the science associated with it. put that alongside you realize 150 years ago. the life expectancy of humans on earth was only slightly higher than when we were living in caves 30000 years ago. so put it next to it. what else has the quote state done? the state runs, nasa. okay. and put stuff on the moon on mars, on, on asteroids. very, you talk and you talked about nasa. i want to think about nasa a little bit because last year was a huge picture nasa right there on you. all right there the, the, the james webb telescope on the saudi are set up. let, last year, last year was

a significant year for it for space discoveries. for the 1st time, astronomers captured an image of a super massive black hole in the center of our galaxy. also on the hubble space telescope identified the most distant star ever observed in of course, at the james web. ah, space telescope delivered a deep field image of the quote invisible universe showing us unseen parts of the casualties. it's quite fascinating stuff and the most distant galaxy we've ever observed are now accessible to us in a certain kind of way. can you talk to me about 2022, out of everything that happened. what was the biggest discovery in your estimation and how does it influence our understanding of space and maybe even science in the years to collect europe? i'm, i'm delighted to report that investments in this country and others who are partners in science continues and continues to push the frontier of cosmic discovery. and that image of a black hole, we always knew it was there. but to get evidence of what it's doing to the distorted fabric of space in time around it,

that was justifiably banner headlines and the deployment of the james web space telescope. oh, my gosh. i mean that so much could have gone wrong. you know, who doesn't get enough credit, and this are the engineers that figured out how to build this thing. how do you make an 8 meter telescope fit into the fairing of a rocket? well, you fold it, astrophysicist didn't figure that out. engineers did you fold it and then on furlough when you get to your destination. all right, they figure that out. and so i'd a tip, my hat with my hat tip, my hat up to the engineers that enable our discoveries in astrophysics. so, so yet people who are into science, you can also be into engineering and still participate on that frontier of research . so it was all good. on the year, he says something interesting and an interview with steven co bear talking about the web telescope. and you said that as our area of knowledge grows, so to does the perimeter of our ignorance for those beautifully put, you should be

a poet in addition to a scientist. up book. how, how ignorant are we of the vastness of the universe? that's a great question. by the way, i wrote an essay some years ago called the perimeter of ignorance. the point is, as you learn what is going on in the universe, then your area of knowledge grows so that this was a, this is a, a highly potent analogy. i think the area grows, but wait a minute. the perimeter of that area is also growing. so the so, so for example, i know to ask questions to day because i'm standing in a new place brought to you by the james webspace telescope and the hobble. if you want to go back a couple of decades, i can ask a question to day that i didn't even think to ask 20 years ago, 10 years ago, in some cases,

5 years ago. so your curiosity fed by this, that the, that the intent, the intention to advance this moving frontier puts you in a new vista. you can see where you've never seen before. so now you want to say, well, how bass is that field of ignorance? we don't know, but i tell you what we do know. there are 2 drivers in the universe. we have terms for them, but we don't know what they are, but we call them dark matter and dark energy. these are some of the longest unsolved problems in astrophysics. if you add up their effect on the universe, it is 96 percent of what's going on. and we do not know or understand what they are or what causes them. everything you know and love about that we all know and love about this universe, the chemistry, the biology, the physics, the aerodynamics the, the, the,

the orbital dynamics. everything we understand is contained in 4 percent of what's driving the universe. so we're in a odd situation where we know enough about the universe to quantify what we don't know. and that's exciting to the scientists. it's not terrifying it's excite that is exciting to the side. it's exciting to be everyday nerd. it's exciting to lots of us right. then there's a part of me though that says yes as much as i'd like to know more as much as i'd like to use your quote to make the entire solar system like our a backyard. that sounds great, but that investment both of time with intellectual resources, the end of money to some is, is what should be devoted to our problems here on the ground on this planet that they're systemic issues. institutional issue, structural issues that we have to deal with in, in that it's a 0 sum game that when we spend too much time out there, we're not dealing with what's going on down here. what do you say to that argument? well, you can ask, how much do you think we're spending in space?

the space station, the james web, the hubble, the mission to the moon, the artemus missions. what fraction of your tax dollar? if you're an american, do you think we're spending? and when i ask that to people, it's out of 10 percent, maybe 15 percent were spending 4 tenths of a penny. of your tax dollar, doing all those activities. so you can take up a greenback, take a dollar bill, and cut for tenths of one percent off of the edge and it doesn't even get you into the ink. so you're saying, why are we spending it there when we should be solving these problems? here we're spending 99.6 percent of a budget down here and you want to grab it from this point 4 percent and say that's gonna solve the problem. really take a look at the budgets. take a look at how and where and why we're spending money to a person. none of them have actually look at out at 99.6 percent of the budget is

invested. and i think if you did, you might be say, well, we're spending too much over here, or we're here. 29 dozen places you could point to. meanwhile, when nasa makes a discovery in his headlines in a why, because people care, they want to look up. they want some kind of hope for what science and technology can be and do for their future. and, and, and it's, it's transformative, it's space technology that gave you gps that you take for granted this sitting on your smartphone. and that's how you can find the short the quickest way to grandma in the that grandma's house in traffic. yeah. without think of what these are satellites or would sent to middle earth orbit. ok, middle earth, not middle earth. and it's sort of the rice, but so, so, so it's the place that how do you know the hurricane is coming and what path it's going to take satellite technology bought that to you. no,

we're spending money in space and we shouldn't spend it down here. so i can't, here's what i'm going to do. we'll sneak into your house in the dark of night and remove everything in your home. that was inspired or enabled by investments in space technology. and you'll buy that when you wake up in the morning. it might be indistinguishable from a cave because that's kind of where we be without what those investments have delivered to modern civilization. those investments have also delivered some other stuff. in 2001, you propose creating a space force which eventually came into existence in 2019 under president donald trump. the u. s. space force is now defined as a quote, a military service that organizes trains and equipped space forces. in order to protect us and allied interests in space, you've examined the relationship between astrophysics in the military and accessory, to war, your book, accessory, to war. so i'm curious at the same time that we think about these extraordinary advances and technological benefits. do you worry about potential consequences of

militarize ing space? so a couple of points are in 2001 i was in a white house commission where that was discussed. yes, but we were not the only commission were that was discuss, i'm so that the space force has been percolating for decades and odd. so a donald trump decided to act on it. so trumpeters would, would associate it with trump, but really it's been in discussion long did long predates donald trump just to be clear about that. second. i'm no, nobody wants war. nobody want know, nobody wants that. all right, so, so i want to 1st say that the space force wasn't created out of, you know, out of the ether. it kind of already existed how, in what was called the u. s. space command, which was a branch of the u. s. air force. it already existed, they're the ones who launched the gps. so when you create a space 4th,

what primarily occurred was that this branch of the air force was separated out and given its own budget line, but metaphysical, or expanding that the theater of war. i mean, i hear donald trump saying, ah, he once said that the space force was created because quote, space is the world's newest war fighting domain and amid grave threats to our national security, americans appear already in space is absolutely vital. i agree. i know you don't want war and i know most saying normal people don't want war with it, but, but as out of money was a lot of investment or so. so now we're in modern times and ask yourself, i'm how much space assets do we have? and how much of our economy depends on it. you know, what is will be valued at in the billions. oprah does not exist without space assets. neither does directv. neither does the weather channel. neither does i of the api tinder. ok. just to take an absurd limiting example of the financial

value of our space assets. so you say to yourself, what should the military be doing as in their got well, i want them to protect our assets. i that i think that's a natural need of a sovereign nation to have any military that they fund to protect their assets and our assets in space to day are huge. yeah. huge. and i know a lot of you on that i at way nasty attorney. i, i appreciate that i, i think though, the idea that this sort of posture in these investments are purely to protect assets rather than to expand power and maybe empire. that's where the tension comes in, right? like we're not just protecting our stuff, we're getting other stuff. and in that, well, yes, that's, that's a, that's a big a caricature of our presence in space. ok, so the military is going to protect our assets, make sure we can conduct business,

make sure we can do the things we normally do based on all the things we have put into space. now if, if there is someone else that's perceived as a threat, then we can think of military actions rather than just a defensive action. so offensive actions or, or let me, let me not say, i'll transfer it. let me say if there's a satellite that we believe is putting us at risk, then i wouldn't put it past the space forced to take out that satellite and by some way, and a lot of ways to do that. but this whole thing with star wars with, with ships fighting each other. no, that is not what's going on. okay. it is not what's happening here is not how space works. you said something in that your bookstore, a messenger that stick sticks with me. you said cosmic perspectives, can force us to take pause and reflect on the meaning of life. and when the value of piece that sustains it at that really resonates with me. what does it mean? what does the significant for all of us regular folk to have a cosmic perspective?

yeah, so what happens is it takes you out of yourself and out of your own ego. and it forces you to look, i really don't like this, we're but i'm to use it here holistically at life on earth, not as humans on earth, but life on earth and the eco system that sustains us. and it's not just a stratus ferric view, it say it's higher than that. and with your permission, i want to quote appalled 14 astronaut, edgar mitchell. you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation and intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world and compulsion to do something about it from out there on the moon, international politics look so betty. you want to grab a politician by the scruff or the neck and drag him a quarter 1000000 miles out and say, look at deck, son of a. oh, that,

that is true, that is a cosmic perspective. i marilyn you that i'm telling you. that is the cause of perspective to end all cosmic perspective. so i have, you have these fantasies where the lawn creates a space bus and was air bus. the company space bus get all the worrying leaders, put him on the bus, set him to the moon and have him look back at earth. and he say, you see the border between your country and the one you're fighting? no. do you see the people dying? no, do you see that the havoc you're reeking? no, that's just earth and we're all in it together. and it's all we have. and there's no hope that there's no hint that that, that, that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. it's up to us to do something about carl sagan wrote about this in the pale blue dot decades ago. so yeah, it can transform the world. and yes, bringing out everlasting piece a to sound like a beauty pageant contestant. but yes, world peace. if possible,

when you look at earth from above, i love it. i love it near the grass tyson. thank you so much for joining us in a friend. thanks for heaven. that is our show up front. we'll be back. ah. ah! a said. the dakota oil pipeline snake through indigenous land,

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