The amount of awful shit great scientists get away with amazes me, and I constantly struggle to reconcile a person’s identity with their ideas, appreciate the legitimate brilliance (in their fields!) of someone like Dawkins or James Watson and acknowledge their legitimately shitty behavior.

And then there’s stuff like this. Neil deGrasse Tyson is… what, annoying? That’s it? Not racist, or misogynist? Not into eugenics? Never been homophobic? Didn’t work for the Nazis? He’s the one ruining the wonder of the universe and giving scientists a bad name, because his Twitter feed makes him sound like a dick?

His Twitter is annoying! He’s also done more to popularize scientific inquiry than most, and if his Twitter feed shows anything, it’s a surprisingly high commitment to ensuring accuracy over focusing only on the “cool” aspects of science. Addressing ethics in science is legitimately tricky. This is a rant made for a blog, or better a reddit post, that Wired picked up rather than a story about real controversy.