Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Ok dudes, forget about sexual assault for now. Don't you feel too humiliated to say anything about or report horrific things bullies have done to you?

He is ok.

Carl Sagan was much much better tho.

Following recent allegations of sexual misconduct, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s talk show, “StarTalk,” is on a hiatus while the claims are investigated by the National Geographic Channel.

Late last November, National Geographic Networks and Fox said they would examine claims that Tyson behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner toward two women. In addition, Tyson was expected to host a new edition of “Cosmos: Possible Worlds,” a series he revived in 2014, in March. However, that’s on hold as well.

As previously reported, Tyson has been accused by multiple women of misconduct, stemming from allegations made by three women to Patheos, a religion and spirituality website.

In a lengthy Facebook post, Tyson addressed the misconduct allegations offering his version of the events and denying any inappropriate touching or rape. However, he did apologize for making any of the women uncomfortable.

Source: Neil DeGrasse Tyson's 'StarTalk' on hiatus amid sexual misconduct allegations, could return pending investigation

Hello! My name is Alan and im from Argentina. I just wanted to point out that my older brother has Asperger Syndrome and he was diagnosed at the age of 8. He was very interested in Planets and Stars when he was a little, he even asked for a telescope and had the dream of create Robots while growing Up. He had a los of issues while growing, he is not 27 years old. A lot of these issues came because he doesnt know hot to comunicate with people propperly, and sexually. Actually, he gave Up his dreams, and doesnt have the confidence to build anything on his own. We had an issue in the family with him and my female cousin Belén, who always been really nice to him and is very friendly with everyone. She knows about his condition, so she always understood that he might be a little weird in some aspect. The thing is, he started to take pictures of her without her permission, and i believe he uses the pictures to masturbate (he is now addicted to masturbation since he haves a lot of anxiety). That was f****d up, and my cousin stopped seeing him after that. Another f****d up thing is he used to chat with my other female cousin on regulae bases, and she told me that the conversation always turned up weird, he starts to make comments about her weight, her period and stuff about self steem, like trying to know how to manipulate/convince women of having sex with him of love him. He is a mysoginist and he doesnt wanna see it, but he is like this because of my mother (she mistreated him verbally and physicly among the years). What can i do to help him? He started to abuse the cats sexually too (ive seen him while he was in "autistic" mode) and i think also my dog. My sister had to leave my house because of him constantly watching, observing her body all the time. Please give me an advice. Im about to leave my house soon, and i need to know he is going to be alright and will not put anybody in danger.
Besides this, ive seen Neil Tyson vídeos and interviews, and he talks and have the same gestures as him. I do think Neil might have Aspergers, just by reading his tweeter page i can see he haves this kinda narcissistic/black or white attitude most Aspies have. Please answer!

He comes off as totally extravert and at ease in public speaking, and as un autistic as you can get, but...

The reason I said that is that he can seem impolitic at times...

He once posted a video, it was about a tragic event in the news, the event ignites debate about a certain hot button political issue. But he seemed to be oblivious to the politics and just blithely went on about how "folks think THIS thing, but statistically its really THAT way, blah blah...GEE WHIZ, isnt this FASCINATING!". It looked like he was taking a side, but he didnt seem to be taking a side. He either should have taken a stand and publicly taken one side and said "I think THIS...and here are that stats to prove it". Or he should have put disclaimers into his talk about how he wasnt taking a stand either way, or he shoulda just kept his mouth shut in public about it altogether.

I dont wanna start a debate about the issue itsself. But it would be as if he were to go on TV to talk about how dog meat is more nutritious than cat meat, oblivious to how offended pet owners would be, and how it would turn dog lovers and cat lovers in the audience against each other, and that he would seem to favoring cat owners by advocating cooking dogs, and so on. To take a ridiculous example.

It seems the allegations never panned out.  Both National Geographic and Fox announced the investigation as complete, they are moving forward with both StarTalk and Cosmos, and there will be no further comment.  The networks affirmed that both StarTalk and Cosmos would resume, but that no date had been set.  The American Museum of Natural History stated Neil deGrasse Tyson would keep his job as director of the Hayden Planetarium.