By Jeff Charles
It will never cease to amaze me how brilliant minds can believe some of the most skull-hammeringly stupid ideas ever concocted. A video featuring famed astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson has been circulating on social media. It shows an interview between himself and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, in which the scientist waxes anything but eloquent on gender and sex.
Warning: The following video is so asinine that you might lose a couple of IQ points just from watching it.
The video starts with Tyson arguing that “the XX/XY chromosomes are insufficient. Because when we wake up in the morning, we exaggerate whatever feature we want to portray the gender of our choice.”
For some reason, Tyson then points out that the United States “was a land where we have the pursuit of happiness” and goes on to explain:
Suppose no matter my chromosomes, today I feel 80 percent female, 20 percent male. I’m going to put on makeup. I’m going to do this. Tomorrow, I might feel 80 percent male…