Bill Nye The Science Guy Reading Out Mean Tweets About Himself Is Delightfully Snarky
Don't try to tell a scientist that global warming is a myth.
Today is Science Sunday! All stuff produced on Junkee today will be about celebrity scientists, at least until something else happens.
Bill Nye is kind of like America’s version of Dr Karl — a universally beloved mad-scientist figure who’s spent decades getting kids enthralled about the wonders of science, minus the weird endorsement of a politically-charged discussion paper that skimmed over the existence of climate change. Plus, he wears bow ties and does goofy stuff with his face and/or hands. Kids love that shit.
But being a prominent scientist in an age where elected members of the US Congress argue against the reality of global warming by literally bringing a snowball into the Senate and going “BUT COLD!” brings with it a certain level of political involvement, too. Nye attracts a heap of climate-denying Twitter heroes who reply to his every thought with well thought-out, poignant counters like these:
@BillNye @AtheistEngineer I choose to marry my sister, my dog and my car in a polygamous union.
— Michael (@mlechow) June 28, 2015
@graemenrodgers @JoePesky @BillNye Freezing water is happening everywhere. Greenhouse gasses are a hoax. Grow up.
— rick allain (@allainrick) June 16, 2015
@partylethbridge @BillNye @POTUS the German people were in love with hitler too. Just saiyan…
— Mike (@_Nematoad_) May 18, 2015
In answer to this tsunami of slack-mouthed nonsense, and to spruik his upcoming crowdfunded movie, Nye has done a Jimmy Kimmel/Barack Obama/Mike Baird and read out a select version of the mean tweets people send him every day. His withering , low-key sarcasm is wondrous to behold.
“I’m sorry you’re cluttering up the internet” is an all-purpose burn for the ages.