The latest Joe Biden outrage is the handing out of Presidential Medals of Freedom to the blatantly undeserving.
Popularizers of science seem to have gone downhill these days. Or perhaps it’s just a few of the most visible ones who are so vile.
In their own day, Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov espoused some lamentable left-wing views and advanced some dubious propositions as they explained the universe to nonscientists. But you could listen to, read, and enjoy them.
Neither ever suggested, not even once, that persons who disagreed with him on a scientific question might reasonably be incarcerated therefore — inasmuch as the disagreement impaired his quality of life “as a public citizen.” (An argument any totalitarian might use to rationalize violating innocent persons’ rights.)
But Bill Nye, “the science guy,” has expressed the greatest possible sympathy with the proposition that it might be okay to imprison scientists who disagree with him about climate, human impact on climate, or the advisability of trying to centrally plan climate.
In 2016, when asked about a proposal to imprison “climate skeptics,” Nye said that “extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my qualify of life as a public citizen. That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good.”
People don’t do their best thinking with a gun pointed at them, Nye guy. That is not good.
Note: it’s the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Not the Presidential Medal of Craven Censorship.
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Like the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a ruined award.