Bill Nye to flat Earthers and science deniers: 'It affects all of us' - Livescience.com

Bill Nye has had it with flat-Earthers and other science deniers.

While humanity is landing robots on Mars and breaking open the mysteries of the universe, there continues a social trend of "science denialism." From opposition to handwashing in the 1800s to modern climate deniers, anti-maskers and "flat-Earthers," or people who believe that planet Earth is actually flat ( it is not), "anti-science" movements aren't new, but they are a problem facing us all today, according to Nye..

"There are people running around in the United States, or in the world, on the electric internet, thinking out loud ...

And so this anti-science movement that we have in the United States, well, in the Western world right now, is bad for everybody.".

"That's why I did, or we did, the show the Science Guy show years ago was out of concern for the future of the United States especially," Nye said. .

He added that we all also depend on the science behind genetically modified food, which stems back thousands of years and is as advanced as ever today.

Nye talked about his book "Bill Nye's Great Big World of Science," with coauthor and science journalist Gregory Mone

Thank you for signing up to Live Science

Live Science is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher