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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: The Clean Room (2014)
5% of politics ruins 95% of science
An interesting and captivating story of Clair Patterson's pursuit to remove lead in gasoline from the environment. Patterson is the hero and Dr. Robert H. Kehoe is the villain, because he got money from evil General Motors. It is a great story, and largely true. Patterson was the good guy, and Kehoe and GM were wrong.
Then at the last two minutes Neil deGrassse Tyson tells that scientists are "Raising the alarm on other environmental issues." This to imply that Tyson is such a scientist, and he is a good guy, just like Paterson. This is where he loses me. I am binge watching Cosmos right now, and am sickened by the repeated references to Climate Change. It changes the show from great pop science to politcial advocacy.
Tyson did this show because he believes in Global Warming. If he did not, he would not have gotten the gig. I see him as being closer to the Robert H. Kehoe character than Clair Patterson.
The largest point that Neil deGrasse Tyson is making in the series is, "There is Climate Change, (read Global Warming), vote for the Democrat." When he does this, he loses or insults half his audience.
I would be much more interested in a full 2 hour show where he makes his scientific case for global warming and thus, the Democratic party, and has equally accomplished scientists on the other side debate the issue. But that show will never been seen, as the Global Warming side does not debate this issue.
I love science and nature shows. They should be about science and nature.