60 Minutes Hypes Neil De Grasse Tyson: Skips Fabrications Misstatements

[See NewsBusters for more.] 60 Minutes devoted 12 minutes on Sunday towards fawning over celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Yet, the Charlie Rose-hosted segment never mentioned his repeated fake quotes, including a slam against George W. Bush that Tyson repeated for years. Instead, Rose fawned that the TV personality has followed “Carl Sagan as the country's most captivating scientific communicator.” The CBS journalist gushed, “Here’s something you haven’t seen before, an astro-physicist on stage in a sold out auditorium. His following has grown as he’s mastered many mediums, including television, Twitter and radio.” Clearly a fan, Rose cheered, “So, you've become a superstar of the universe.”