Binary?

Over the last 20 years a lot of patents in the area have expired as well, making them cheaper to produce and sell.

The garbage disposer shows a reference to the item...

You don't usually do car repair unless something is not working..

In the late 1800's sure.
But they were still bloodletting then.
And just discovering that keeping germs out of wounds/surgical sites/people would help them heal better/faster.
So, I don't know how much Doctors prescribing tobacco in that era means. :-)

My mom had a Dr recommend cigarettes to her. ( 1950's when she was a teen. )
So she would be "cool" and less anxious.
So, basically, irrational.

The irony of this is so sad.

Attacking people who believe in free press and then threatening those that deny it to you on their own platform makes me both sad and happy at the same time.

What a confused, sad group of people.

You are assuming rationality on the part of people.

Knock that off.

If people were rational, no one would ever start smoking.
Assume it is harmless. ( It's not, but for argument )
The benefit is non-existent to negligible at best, and the cost is too much.
Why would anyone start?

They knew. Datapoint, 1944 movie "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo", cigarettes are referred to as coffin nails in carrier deck conversation between Van Johnson and Robert Mitchum.

I don't run red lights, or blow through stop signs.
I will make a left turn from the left lanes, as that is fitting, proper and legal ( where I am, anyway ).
Otherwise, I keep to the right and make sure I am predictable, and try to be courteous to all.

It is still dangerous.

I agree completely that a cyclist should obey the rules of the road. It annoys me when they don't, as a cyclist, as car drivers seem to take a "all cyclists misbehave, so I can run them over" attitude. But that is all window dressing. Riding a bike in traffic is dangerous because automobile operators, in general, don't look, don't see, and don't understand ( excluding a few that do, and a few that seem actively malicious*. ) I would expect you would know that from riding a motorcycle, I have noticed that cars seem to act the same there.

* I am alive today thanks to ( short list, there are others A, 2 metal posts I could ride between, but the car trying to run me down could not, and B, a curb that I hopped up that the car chasing me was not willing to try to get up ).
Note, just ridding my bike where I was allowed to.

But "one of the foremost science educators"? Hmmm.

Your other points notwithstanding, I have to defend Nye here.... He's absolutely one of the foremost educators.

Education also requires reach. The most brilliant prof could teach one person who may end up a brilliant scientist. A really bad teacher could cycle through a ton of students, and none of them would gain anything... But even a mediocre scientist who's funny, accurate, and enjoyable teaching thousands actual science would be a better educator overall by leaps and bounds.

Nye's show was wildly popular to teens and preteens, and watched by millions. Hell, he might have been largely responsible for tens of thousands of people going into science fields that wouldn't have otherwise. I say this because 85% of teens knew of him, and 90% of those actually watched his shows according to a study by Josephine Holz. I'd love to see a freshman incoming questionnaire asking "Who inspired you most to pursue a science degree?" and I bet Nye would be the name most given.

He was Gen Y's Mr. Wizard, and even more popular. That's pretty cool, and I claim that makes him one of the foremost science educators in the US.