SIO169: Panel on Neil deGrasse Tyson Allegations, Part 1
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by Chantelle Boduel and Kristi Winters as the nation's favorite astrophysicist and host of the reboot of Cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson, has been accused of sexual harassment by (at the time of recording) 3 women (and 1 more shortly after recording, see here.) The oldest accusation is of a horrifying date rape in college, the other two involve a woman who says he touched her inappropriately and an assistant who has an alarming story of Tyson attempting to seduce her. We go over the facts, Tyson's response, and discuss how we feel about the accusations and work our way through some deeper #metoo issues.
HuffPo article on deeper history of 1st accuser; Tyson's statement; Patheos article
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 169 I'm your host Thomas Smith and who got a doozy for you today because I |
| 0:39.0 | wanted to record with a couple really smart really amazing people to talk about the Neil degrass Tyson |
| 0:46.2 | allegations and inevitably touch on me too and kind of do another panel discussion there because I really think it's one of the most |
| 0:56.1 | valuable discussions we could be having in this day and age and I also think that no matter how much even people |
| 1:02.4 | who are kind of agree or on the progressive side of things |
| 1:06.4 | even even among a bunch of different progressives who are my friends and who I talk to |
| 1:11.8 | there's still a lot of disagreement, you know, good-natured, but, you know, disagreement on different facts, different ways that we ought to think about these things, and I just think it's a really valuable conversation to have and I've got two great people |
| 1:26.2 | to have that conversation with and that is Chantel from you might remember her |
| 1:30.7 | from a while back on talking about FGM around the world and |
| 1:34.7 | also Christy Winters who I mentioned was the one who referred me to Johannes Brewer |
| 1:41.1 | and the video game study and she's also been on the show of course I think |
| 1:45.6 | talking about probably most recently about the the rise of the nuns around the world |
| 1:50.6 | the no n e s to smart people. I can't wait to have the discussion |
| 1:56.4 | and see what we learn, see what we come to. Chantel, you've been on the show, gosh, do we discover that it's been a year since you've been on. |
| 2:12.1 | Yeah, more than a year, I think. |
| 2:14.0 | Well, that's always happens. |
| 2:16.4 | I can't believe it's been that long. |
| 2:18.0 | You were last on to talk about FGM and the work you had done |
| 2:21.0 | and investigating that around, I guess everywhere, really, |
| 2:24.3 | different reporting on different, the prevalence of it everywhere. |
| 2:27.2 | How are you doing? |
| 2:28.2 | I'm doing very well, thank you. |
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