Move over, Dr. Anthony Fauci. There’s a new favorite scientist among D.C. Democrats, except this one’s not even really a scientist at all.
President Joe Biden just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to “Billy Nye, the science guy,” a former mechanical engineer-turned-TV personality-turned-liberal activist. The president awarded Nye the nation’s highest civilian honor for supposedly being a “beloved science educator for the nation … [who] inspires generations of Americans to follow facts and reason.”
This is absurd. It’s just the latest degradation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and perfectly embodies the politicization of science.
First and foremost, Nye, despite building a career off passing himself off as a scientific expert, is not even a scientist — at least, not in the way
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