On Friday, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson — astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the television show “Cosmos” — claimed that “100%” of “free” penguins (as opposed to penguins enslaved in zoos?) live in the Southern Hemisphere:
Some of us in the North are jealous that 100% of the world’s population of free Penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 19, 2014
Busted! Fact-check from Sean Davis of The Federalist:
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/513119289801715712
Doesn’t everyone know about the majestic — and free — Galapagos penguin that lives north of the Equator? Sheesh.
As we wait for a correction from the esteemed Dr. Tyson, here are some hilarious tweets mocking this egregious (or is it egg-regious?) error to pass the time:
Science School with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Chapter 8: Pengins: The Most Dangerous Game http://t.co/lsBW1K76FT
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 20, 2014
@neiltyson I saw penguins in the Galapagos, right on the Equator and even slightly north of it. They seemed quite free to me!
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) September 19, 2014
FACT: Penguins subsist on a steady diet of fish, insects, hoboes, runaways and Identity Theft.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 20, 2014
okay i'm out of penguin facts.
they're very interesting creatures, though. Nature's Little Khmer Rouge.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 20, 2014
Science School with Neil deGrasse Tyson…with Penguins, what’s not to love. http://t.co/ABigyCWctX pic.twitter.com/G7FEp5noVN
— Mike (@ICUStat) September 20, 2014
Related:
Neal deGrasse Tyson fans ignore his fabrications ‘because they’re all about facts’
Neil deGrasse Tyson — serial fabulist? Now, with ‘quotes’ mocking the celebrated physicist
Join the Conversation
VIP members get the ability to comment on articles.