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and so too does my guest today, arguably america's most famous scientist, neil degrasse tyson. ecial subject is astrophysics, but his mission goes much wider, to get us all to respect scientific fact. so how's that going? neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of america's leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i don't have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and i'm going to give what sounds like an easy sort of cop out answer, and it has to do with how science is taught in the schools. it's currently taught as a body of information, a satchel of facts that are imparted upon you and the you regurgitate that for an exam. that's an aspect of science, but it's not the most important part of science. the most important part of science is knowing how to question things and knowing when an answer has emerged that represents, sort of, an obj

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