My Response to Terrence Howard

Did you watch Terrence's JRE appearance?

I’m high af but these diss tracks are going crazy this year

My teacher once taught me, "whenever you have an idea that you think is brilliant idea, don't try to prove it right but try to prove it wrong."

I’m in grad school. The funniest part about Howard’s reactions to the peer review is that every grad student goes through that with their advisor at first. It’s hard seeing your work torn to pieces, but you slowly learn that your advisor isn’t trying to be mean, but is being terse because they (hopefully) genuinely care about developing you as a scientist.

Hat's off for using this as an opportunity to teach rather than a cheap way of scoring social points by ridiculing Mr. Howard, this was beautiful

Ironically, the most viewed peer review in history

If Terrence hadn't brought it up, no one would know. Neil corrected him in private

The first rule of the Dunning Kruger Club is that you do not know that you're in the Dunning Kruger Club.

My father taught me about the struggle of peer reviews, but he never once was upset about it. Just said “now I need to find a way to prove them I am right or correct it”. Beautiful stuff really. Peer review made us who we are as a world.

Terrence Howard was looking for Affirmation but instead received a Peer Review.

Celebrity: "Read my thesis". Scientist: "Nice pictures bro".

Terrence and all celebrities need people around them that aren't just "yes men"

I love how Neil breaks it down for the average person to understand science. He is an incredible teacher.

These rap beefs have ascended to galactic levels.

I think Neil had a rather polite way of telling someone "You are completely wrong and have no real knowledge about anything you talk about, but you draw nice pictures".

If nothing else, this exchange has given me new appreciation for the assertion, science is hard. Two minutes in, I'm thinking, Neil, is this a long story? Moments later, I was delighted to see where the conversation would now take us and wanted to stay 'til the end. If I received such a reply, it would not have made me happy to receive such hard verifiable repudiation but I would felt honor in the exchange. The magic question: Has this been peer reviewed? should be asked more often. Dr. Tyson's reply was the most respectful answer an intelligent person could hope for. I would have felt warm thoughts for Dr. Tyson after receiving such a reply. Such a reply would allow me to revise or bolster my theories before exposing them to a wider audience.

Brilliant, and also a really important topic. We need to do a better job of countering the overinflated confidence that celebrity or social media can give people. Narcissistic-like traits (clinical or not) can be harmful to the concept of truth and the pursuit of it. Neil approached this with humility and honesty. Beautifully done.

The fact that Neil deGrasse Tyson even gave those 36 pages the time of day says a lot about him. Respect.

We are living in a MAGNIFICENT era, where a renowned astrophysicist is having to illustrate why 1*1 = 2 is incorrect 💀💀💀.

This is an issue with society and not just Terrence. People have a problem with constructive criticism. The cross between no longer being a child, to becoming an adult has been skewed. Instead of always feeling like your opinions are being attacked, we should take the peer review and get better from it. Good on you Neil.