WATCH: Neil deGrasse Tyson Melts Down, Claims Men Don’t Have Athletic Advantages In Women’s Sports
Television scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson claimed that men have no athletic advantage when competing in women’s sports in an incoherent appearance on “Real Time” with Bill Maher.
Maher asked Tyson about the recent resignation of Scientific American editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth, who stepped down after an expletive-filled rant directed at President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters.I n a series of now-deleted X posts, Helmuth referred to Trump supporters as the “meanest, dumbest, most bigoted” group and “fascists” following the former president’s reelection earlier this month.
Maher pointed out just last year, the magazine claimed that “inequity between male and female athletes is a result not of inherent biological differences between the sexes but of biases and how they are treated in sports.” The HBO host referred to the nonsensical statement as “nuts” and stated that this type of rhetoric cost Democrats this campaign cycle, drawing a dismissive laugh from Tyson.
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“Bill, every 20 minutes on your platform, you come up with another reason why the Democrats lost,” he responded, leading to a back-and-forth between the two.
“That’s not true. First of all, you don’t watch this show, so you don’t know,” Maher shot back. “I know you don’t and it’s okay, but you talk as if you do and you f—in’ don’t. And that’s okay, just don’t bull**it me. That’s the one thing people can’t ever do on this show is bull**it me.” He then posed a hypothetical, asking why the top WNBA team could never be able to beat the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers.
“What you’re saying is not ‘Scientific American says that,’ an editor for Scientific American says that who no longer has the job,” Tyson responded. “So don’t indict a 170-year-old magazine because somebody,” he continued before Maher jumped back in to question the magazine’s commitment to “science” while pushing such radical and false positions.
Tyson continued to focus purely on Helmuth’s comments while Maher reiterated that the real scandal was the article about men competing in women’s sports. “Long distance swimming, women might actually have the advantage, you look into that,” the television scientist said, at which point Maher joked that he will be filing him under “part of the problem.”
The HBO host refused to let Tyson off the hook and returned to the topic later on in the segment. “I can’t get a scientist to say that Scientific American, the magazine, as so many institutions, have been ideologically captured by this very, very far-left wing to the point where they’re denying stuff that is just obvious to the naked eye,” Maher said.
Guest panelist Andrew Sullivan agreed with Maher’s assertions, adding that the left’s embrace of radical gender ideology cost them on Election Day. “And people aren’t stupid. They see them making these [statements], and they see Democrats refusing- and liberals refusing to disown them. Why? What is Neil afraid of? I know what he’s afraid of. He’s afraid of some massive social media mob coming out and calling him- he’s a sexist bigot and all the rest of it. We have to get over that!”
Maher concurred, pointing to a highly effective ad the Trump Campaign ran in battleground states.
“And people see that and they go ‘Well then I can’t trust you on anything else.’ I mean, look at that ad that Kamala Harris- that Trump ran against her about the transgender in prison thing, like, ‘We’re gonna pay for prisoners to get a transgender operations’ that affects like three people in the world. But she wouldn’t say ‘That was dumb. I just wouldn’t do that anymore.’ And people go, ‘Well, then I just can’t trust you on anything else.’”