Submission + - Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains his Christmas Tweet. (mediaite.com) 1
140Mandak262Jamuna writes: Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweeted on christmas day what appeared to begin as a tribute to Infant Jesus, but ended up celebrating Isaac Newton who shares his birthday with Jesus, (with sufficient allowances for the estimate of Jesus' and the confusion between Gregorian and Julian calenders for Newton).
Apparently this was retweeted some 77000 times, far above his average of 3.5K retweets.
He doubled down on it by tweeting about people being offended by objective truths. Then wrote a fuller explanation.