Neil deGrasse Tyson (most of you know him from the meme below) is one of the many scientists that is making science interesting for folks with non-scientific backgrounds. With him and pages like IFL Science, science and critical thinking has become cool for so many folks that used to think that science is just the boring stuff we were forced to memorize without understanding in high school (or like at my school, omitting stuff like Natural Selection because it doesn’t go with the religious creationism fable).

Yesterday, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a statistician and risk analysis expert who is also a best-selling author of “Black Swan” tweeted this severely condescending tweet, ending it with a “Kapish?” at the end. What a douchebag!

However, in the graceful, eloquent and witty way we’re used to from Neil, this was his epic reply, where he used a part of Taleb’s Twitter bio where he adds he’s a “Lebanese wine expert”.

Apparently, this article is what pissed off Taleb so much (not sure why though).

Watch Cosmos on Netflix if you still haven’t, and don’t pay much attention to the sound of negativity that belittles scientists and what they do (by tweeting from a phone, using the Internet, while drinking safe wine, all of that which was made possible by those very same scientists and their noble work being told “Kapish?”)