Web Extra: Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Cosmos' debut
In this Reliable Sources web extra, Brian Stelter interviews astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the return of 'Cosmos' to TV.
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This is going on in many different places. Tyson falsely portrayed Bush's post 9-11 as an attempt to sow devision between Christians and Muslims. Bush's actual speech was a call for tolerance and inclusion. Exactly the opposite of the opportunistic xenophobe Tyson imagined.
Sean Davis called out Tyson and he eventually admitted the false story came from him conflating the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster with 9-11. He apologized to Bush for misrepresenting his message.
This Tyson gaffe has been systematically censored from Wikipedia by Wikipedia's editors. See Adler's column in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/24/what-makes-an-accusation-wiki-worthy/