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Warning: Spoilers

Spoiler Alert, this show isn't about Science!



I thought this show was going to be about science, indeed even Bill claims it is a science show, instead it's a complex and expensive soap box for Bill Nye's personal political viewpoint.



I can look past the corny jokes and poorly rehearsed dialog, actually I expected it, because it's still the first season but it's the constant push of one political viewpoint that bothers me. Scientists are not supposed to be political, that is not how science works, Bill should know that by now. Bill takes his personal view on the episode subject and crams it down your throat without even a moment to consider that there may be another viewpoint. Any actual chance to present some science is completely glossed over so he can get back to hammering the politics.



Each panel of experts has one person with a different viewpoint than Bill but that person is never allowed to finish a sentence if it is counter to Bill's perspective.



The guy in favor of nuclear power had a level headed argument stating that you can't solve the climate change problem with just solar and wind or nuclear, you have to have a mix of solutions, Bill cut him off and said 'but no one wants nuclear power, I have been to two places in the world and they don't want nuclear, so no one wants nuclear power'. (IMO, people think they don't want nuclear power because they have been made afraid of nuclear power by close minded political activist fools like Bill Nye.) Bill says, alternative medicine isn't real medicine because it hasn't been exhaustively tested by the FDA and therefore it can't possibly work and it's a waste of money. Where does he think most of the medicines we have came from, they were once alternative medicines and herbal remedies. Granted the guy yelling at the woman's stomach is pretty nutty but to lump that in with all alternative medicines and come to the conclusion that all alternative medicine is the same is not science, it is the opposite of science.



I have watched two episodes so far and so far I am not impressed, I expected some science and I have not really seen any.



I grew up loving Bill Nye the Science Guy but sadly he has turned into Bill Nye the Political Activist and it's too bad.



We have enough politics in this world but not enough scientists, Bill please please go back to science because science and politics should never go together.