Bill Nye isn't really a Scientist (& why that shouldn't matter)

Fight me. (Actually please don't)

This is very different than the usual sort of video I make, so keep that in mind when you're watching it. Please feel free to leave questions and concerns in the comment section.

I'm on twitter! :

[CrispyGFX]

"Bill Nye is not so much a scientist as he is a science educator"

So... A 'science guy', if you will...

[GeeWTee]

I mean, the show isn't even called "Bill Nye The Scientist"

[gugusaba]

Teacher: Turns on Bill Nye
The Entire Class: BILL BILL BILL BILL

I agree with everything you said here, and I think that Bill Nye was important to my and others' education. Things like the Magic School Bus and Bill Nye inspire people to be scientists, and to be honest, whenever I hear Bill Nye or The Magic School Bus, I get goosebumps and nostalgia. Also, the ending was perfect.

[RamHoot]

yo so much hype for this series. You're offering a really well constructed take on him from a really interesting perspective. This is the good stuff homes. Don't worry about the politics getting in everyone's soup, I think they're digging it.

[astererratum]

Ah. I remember our teacher having to remind us that there are other classes so we don't scream the theme song at the top of our lungs. We still screamed it. And we knew when other classes were watching cause we heard them screaming it. I loved it so much. I remember when he was on dancing with the stars. My mom showed me and I just sung the theme the entire time. The theme is legit saved on my phone. So nice. Those songs at the end were a banger.

[Sam_on_YouTube]

Bill Nye is an engineer and science communicator. Both great careers in science and, in my opinion, qualify you to call yourself a "scientist". He never claimed to be a researcher.

[TrashMasterTV]

This is way too well written and put together to only have 200 views so far. Good shit, dude

[RubberHose]

This was a great video. I've been struggling to find out what it is about Bill Nye that seems to bother me, despite the fact that I agree with pretty much all his scientific stances. This video helped me conceptualize my issues with how he handles things

[thomastheiner]

11:34 the line about "people who have been taught to trust their feelings over their senses" is probably one of the most insightful lines I've ever heard on YouTube damn

[Zetimenvec]

I was in elementary school when Bill Nye was at his height in popularity, and I can't say I ever remember watching an episode in any classroom. Substitute teachers mostly had us do crosswords, and then when we were slightly older, read and answer questions in our textbooks to hand in and be graded by the teacher later, or something.

I still watched him, and I even pressured my parents into buying me his myst-style point and click adventure videogame. Though, I can't tell you a single thing I remember learning from it.

[hydroxyl]

Respectfully, you were ahead of your time with this series. Please consider re-releasing this in one part, I think it could do well :)

[AceOmegaRO]

"I don't want to talk about politics"
* Proceeds to make a multiple hour long 3 part documentary on the political dealings of a massive scientific projects and how it influenced America including details such as defense spending and backdoor political decision making that affects the bureaucracy of a scientific community*

[agenericyoutubehandle]

Agree with this so much that I'm just gonna link this video whenever the topic comes up. I appreciate that you're taking a holistic approach to looking at everything he did and the kind of person he is instead of focusing on a specific era or set of credentials, etc as compared to a specific objective or metric. This is just a breakdown of all the different parts of bill nye and pointing out what he's best and worst at and how that's affected who he is, what he does, and what that's done at large.

[blinco]

I love the direction you’ve taken your content. Please do more stuff like the Reagan collider series and the fake Nobel prize one. I absolutely loved each and every minute of those

[violetwtf]

i know this video was made years ago, but bill was so into promoting education that he'd do things for very little money. my dmv's driver ed videos even featured bill nye

[HazyJ]

I'm an Audio Engineer, which is the least engineering type of engineer, and even I get triggered at anti engineering rhetoric.

[colinmartin]

Man that Ben Carson reference made me sad.

Calling the man a "brilliant neurosurgeon" is perhaps the biggest understatement anyone could make. He was one of the very best pediatric neurosurgeons in history. The man's contribution to the world of complex pediatric medicine cannot even begin to be described in a youtube comment.

But man... he should have just stayed behind the scalpel...

[Onscreenmoon]

I'm proud to say you're my favorite YouTuber Bobby :)

[McAllen]

I had to do a double take at 10:10 - I live within 5 miles away from the school Bill was speaking at, as in University of Texas-Pan American (which is now named University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley). Good on you for including that clip, Bobby!

[Adityarm.]

Most of all I respect humility in smart people.