Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Whatever [the next outbreak] is, we ain’t ready for it. We still have anti-vaxxers running around.” “I don’t trust scientists. I saw a YouTube video, so I’m not going to take it.” (mocking) “I don’t want you to ever forget this story.” “20,000 years ago, we’re... in the cave. Do you know what the life expectancy was?” Shannon Sharpe: “10 years? 15 years?” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “30. Half of everyone born was dead before they were 30.” Shannon Sharpe: “Wow!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Fast forward to 1840… everyone born in the world was dead by the age of 35. We gained five years of life expectancy. And every one of them ate organic, breathed clean air… Science matters here.” “We’ve doubled the life expectancy with antibiotics, vaccines, and sanitation. The three biggest forces operating on our longevity. So to come around and say I don’t need vaccines because I’m not getting sick, that’s like saying, why are you using dandruff shampoo? You don’t have dandruff.” Shannon Sharpe: “Well, I don’t want to get it.” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “That’s my point. If you’re successful, people think you don’t need it when that’s what’s creating the ongoing success in the first place.”show more

This guy’s a fucking retard who doesn’t understand that average life expectancy is greatly influenced by infant mortality.

Infant mortality brought down the average lifespan by a LOT. And indoor plumbing cured more diseases than all the vaccines combined. This guy always spouts of nonsense.

The largest problem in the USA is people who are dumb as fuck. Are basically telling the Scientist of the world. That they know more science than them. It's the largest grift on the planet right now. Like the flat Earth morons running around.

I'm glad I didn't take the Covid jab. Thats doesn't mean I'm against vaccines. I'm just against rushed, not thoroughly tested, government mandated vaccines.

Neil degrasse Tyson legit has a 90 IQ lmao Infant mortality rate declining is the biggest reason why the average lifespan has increased. If you survived childhood back in the day you lived much longer than 30 years. Absolute midwit

Cool now do autism.

| @neiltyson At the 49-minute mark, Neil deGrasse Tyson becomes visibly frustrated with people who still doubt the moon landing. Full video below:

Just here for the comments. I love seeing the anti-vaxxers try and prove they are smarter than scientists. And when they lose the science argument they play the corruption card. Most have no scientific data to back it up, and those that claim they do refrence discredited, small sample size studies. Now, I wil admit that Covid was rushed into production - they may have followed the same sequence as other testing, but the testing time was compressed and they couldn't be 100% sure there were no long term impacts. But the virus was running through unhealthy populations at a rapid pace, so goverments had to make the ultimate risk-reward decision. Trump had OPERATION WARP SPEED and Biden had to deal with the back half of the pandemic as well. The most important thing we can do now is learn from it.

99% of the rise in life expectancy is due to sanitation. Anti biotics and vaccines is less the 1%. Granted they have there place and have done good, crediting them in the same league as sanitation means he's getting a kick back from pharma.

Sanitation, nutrition, and hygiene were the dominant drivers — not vaccines/antibiotics. Neil is a knucklehead.

Always

This guy is such a clown. Conveniently left out the industrialization of agriculture. He made sure to throw in sanitization because he'd get clowned harder. "Sanitation vs. Modern Medicine: Demographers often point out that the massive leap in global life spans began decades before the invention of antibiotics and most modern vaccines. The dramatic drop in infectious disease mortality during the late 19th and early 20th centuries is almost entirely credited to the sanitary revolution. [1, 2]"

Jesus, Tyson is dumber than a box of rocks....every vaccine is different...only a fucking moron like Tyson aggregates all vaccines, and makes such a statement. Does he have shit for brains? maybe

Neil is spot on. You have a choice becauss of how successful science has been in expanding our lifespans. You can be skeptical all you want but the facts are the facts.

"Everyone died by the age of 35 in 1840..." This guy is a certifiable moron. He isn't a scientist.

Hey Neil, why not debate with the scientist here;

a man explaining cave mortality statistics to shannon sharpe as a vaccine argument is peak "i am technically correct and completely losing.

Oh look, here is Neil deGrasse Tyson at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house.

Forgot I needed to add this guy's name to my mute list. Thanks!

@IfindRetards

Wow. Correct me, but wasn’t Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson both in their 80s when they died, LONG BEFORE 1840?

I like how he neglects to mention that most vaccinations are thoroughly studied and tested before being pushed to the general public. The Covid vaccine was not. I don't see how someone as smart as Neil can be so stupid as to trust an untested chemical mixture being pushed into your body.

He leaves out the part that in the 20th century, the global elites decided to use pharma to cull the masses. I'm not against vaccines, just against the modern companies that make them.

Seems that pure bloods should be gone by now. Weird.

High childhood deaths pulled the average way down, but adults who survived to reproductive age had a decent shot at middle-to-old age by historical standards.

Science is great! It’s when humanity is asked to blindly trust untrustworthy organizations and bureaucrats who already have a history of habitual prevarication that things go off the rails. “Trust the science” is the stupidest anti-science statement ever puked into the collective human consciousness. Science, real science, doesn’t “trust the science”. Dogmatic scientists do, but the actual empirical method of doing real science does not.

This idiot has zero credibility

Can’t he just stick to Astronomy and Physics? He was good. Now he’s ruined all those things. First his false statements about the Catholic Church’s history. Now, he’s an expert on human biology, except he doesn’t seem to get the XX and XY thing. Now vaccines?

Neil Degrasse has to be the dumbest scientist on the planet. He doesnt understand basic statistics. Doesnt understand simpsons paradox. Doesn't understand that reduced longevity numbers from 200-300 yeara ago were from high infant mortality rates. Most of our early presidents living into their 70's and 80's. John Adams died at 90.

average was 35, but that’s because so many died in childhood. Many people made it to 80-100. The numbers are heavily skewed but if you could make it to about 16 you had a great chance to see 60-70. He’s acting as if people started dying off fast at 35.

"Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Fast forward to 1840… everyone born in the world was dead by the age of 35. We gained five years of life expectancy. And every one of them ate organic, breathed clean air… Science matters here.” My great great great great grandfather was born in 1812 and died in 1904.

My dad got pressured into taking it because he didn’t want to lose his job so close to retirement. He’s been dead four and a half years. What now, Black Science Man?

One of the biggest pos shill mouthpieces near science in recent time.

NDT is an example of someone that is good at one thing so he thinks he knows everything. Bill Gates too. You're not a immunologist or a virologist and if you were any kind of scientist you would known the science by its very nature is never settled and demands skepticism. The one thing he doesn't say is at various times, the so-called smartest people in the world were absolutely wrong.

“I don’t trust scientists." - mocked the man largely responsible for destroying trust in the sciences.