Equal Time for Science and Ignorance?

If you watched astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey" last night, you were treated to a sampling of how science should be presented.  The 13-part series, as we noted on Saturday, is an update to the powerful "Cosmos" program presented by the late Carl Sagan (who was a mentor to a young, 17 year-old Tyson).

Being a scientist requires patience, but as the nation's science IQ slips, Tyson has no patience with the anti-science crowd and their foolish enablers in the media who insist on "balance," even if the alternate view is patently nuts:

"...you don't talk about the spherical earth with NASA and then say let's give equal time to the flat-earthers.  Plus, science is not there for you to cherry pick. You know, I said this once and it's gotten a lot of Internet play, I said the good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

Too bad "equal time" journalism can't free itself of the flat-earthers.