On Sunday, 60 Minutes devoted 12 minutes 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.”

As though he were a host of Access Hollywood, Rose enthused, “Fans line up down the block to watch him record his radio show Star Talk.”

The Federalist has done an exhaustive job of highlighting Tyson’s misstatements. Mollie Hemmingway recapped the website’s work:

[Sean Davis] found significant problems in various claims that Tyson makes as part of his public presentations on science. A newspaper headline touted for years by Tyson likely doesn’t exist. The exact quote he uses to bash members of Congress as being stupid also doesn’t exist. The details within one of Tyson’s favorite anecdotes — a story of how he bravely confronted a judge about his mathematical illiteracy while serving on jury duty — seem to change with various tellings.

On the issue of an alleged George W. Bush quote, The Federalist recounted:

Several top former aides to President George W. Bush, including his 9/11-era press secretary and speechwriters, have told The Federalist that they have no recollection whatsoever of the president ever saying “Our God is the God who named the stars” in the days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The alleged quote is at issue due to claims made by Neil deGrasse Tyson, a science communicator and TV personality who has repeatedly said Bush uttered the phrase in the wake of 9/11 as a way of dividing “we from they.” Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer rejected that allegation. “I never heard him say anything like that and I know that’s not how he thinks,” Fleischer, who worked in the White House from January of 2001 through July of 2003, told The Federalist.

Ulitmately, in a non-apology, Tyson admitted his error by saying, “My bad.”

None of this was in the 60 Minutes report. Neither was the attack on religious faith in Cosmos, the show he hosted. Typically, Charlie Rose offered a puff piece and didn’t ask any hard questions.

A partial transcript of the 60 Minutes segment is below: