Some men...

I feel Tyson cares more about the fame and being right instead of actually teaching

I’ll disagree.
- I think he can be a bit of an ass, but he is also the victim of out of context clipping a lot.
- Man I knew this would bring out the trolls.
  How is an arbitrary list of people able to rile folks up so much? If you think Green or Cox deserves a place on a list over some of these other people: MAKE YOUR OWN LIST, you could do it with just as little effort as it takes to criticize someone else for contributing content.
- I’ll think of you as superficial

I think Hank Green deserves this better than Neil

Agreed. Hank Green has Mister Rogers energy not Neil.

Levar Burton>Neil DeGrasse Tyson

While we're at it, let's get some Steve Irwin in there.
- and the stingray that killed him; they would have been friends
- What? No.
Yknow, that one you could almost get away with by finding some star trek visor clip art.
But, hey, I got my NDT gripes but I am 100 A-OK with him on here. This random meme from the Interwebz.
- Dig this either way honestly.
Why not both?
- It's hard to blame Niel entirely but the newer Cosmos was terrible. Nothing of substance and way too much talk about religion. I don't mind Niel but he can really be an insufferable cunt irl

Anyone criticizing with "why do you put x on there but not y" allow me to introduce you to creating your own original content, you can put whoever you want on a picture! It's within your power!

I suppose that might direct the attention of people like you towards yourselves, and that would be awful wouldn't it?

Maybe think on the previous line a bit before you post your criticism, and ask yourself why you haven't made and posted the list the way you'd like it to be.

Reminds me of people harassing the Ladybird browser devs for declining a PR that changed "he" to "they" in the build steps. If you really cared, you would make meaningful contributions to the project before virtue signaling on a text file
Edit: as an aside, I know of an open source project that is only one or two steps away from being affiliated with Nazis. A transgender woman started contributing and now all those Nazi friends respect her. That's how you actually change minds - not by Reeing with zero effort.
Why did you use x and y in your example and not a and b? How am I supposed to accept x and y?!
Why did they put xy on there but no xx?

Oooh y’know who they missed: Steve Irwin. Yeah we’re gonna need a part II.

Crap. Okay who wants to go back to the Meme Council®?

Honestly, I'd probably drop Tyson for Irwin.
- checks rulebook
  It is allowable.
What did he teach? How to jump on any crocodile? How to annoy every animal? This guy was laughed at in Germany, I still wonder what makes him a hero in the US.
- He taught us all life is beautiful. He taught us that we should appreciate the hell out of it.
- You've just insulted an Australian and I would gladly call you the c word but lemmy rules
- If you actually watched any of his show, or any of his zoo displays, you would know that he spent much more time discussing the details of the wildlife and their habitat than just "jumping on crocodiles", including relocation/rehabilitation and the effects of man-made habitat distraction.
- He got laughed at in germany because these illiterate fucks can't deal with subtitles and had to dub over it with a german australian accent. Of course he comes over as a joke.
Hank Green should be up there too maybe.
- Please, god no. Can we compromise with Tom Scott or Matt Parker or something?

If they include Sagan as Tyson’s predecessor, then why not Nye’s predecessor, Mr. Wizard?

Fair point. Someone please contact the Meme Council®.
- I shall blast forth the notes of summoning!

Just goes to show how amazing PBS actually is. Most of the people listed on the shirt or in the comments had some kind of an affiliation with PBS. Support your local stations!

Mr. Wizard gets no love. Also, I second the Hank Green > N. D. Tyson motion.

Mr. Wizard gets no love
That's because he's a dick. /s
https://youtu.be/VEb1aF2YoKU?t=12
- That's not how you take a heroic educator out of context, this is how you take a heroic educator out of context:

We need to hold people like these in high regard as a society not the constant rotation of pop stars. Funny thing is I can't think of any women that belong on this though most of my teachers were women and they had a profound effect on my life. Dr Ruth Westheimer maybe?

Dr. Ruth for sure. Ms. Frizzle is fictional but deserves recognition. An argument could be made for Julia Child, and Dolly Parton is not primarily known for her free book program but it is incredible.
- Good suggestions. I tried to look up who hosted Romper Room but apparently it was a franchise and had a different host in each location
Jane Goodall

Hi, VSauce! Michael here.

Hank Green as well.
He thinks too fast and talks too fast and I can't comprehend a damn thing he says.
- The few times I looked into his videos, I thought his name was Vsauce Michael. The intro is too youtuber for me.

Wow I'd buy and rock this on a shirt!!

The only guy I like on this is Bob Ross and Mr Rogers

I don't even know who the guy is besides "want"

ndt has sexual assault allegations

bill nye is a engineer not a scientist and the science guy is only a stand up comedy act

So, Is Bill Nye a Real Scientist?

While Nye is absolutely an engineer, the Science Council defines a scientist as “someone who systematically gathers and uses research and evidence, to make hypotheses and test them, to gain and share understanding and knowledge.”

^ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/is-bill-nye-the-science-guy-really-a-scientist

A program with an actual scientist is Scope with Dr Rob

You don't like Carl Sagan?
"To bake cookies from scratch, begin by first creating a universe."
Science Guy doesn't have to mean scientist
- And it's still a comedy act, bill nye is qualified to be an engineer, not a scientist
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Bell
  Robert James Bell is a qualified scientist
  Trusting bill nye to teach science is like trusting your uncle bob who thinks he knows science to teach science
  nye should be teaching engineering, not science
They guy next to want is Carl Sagan. He's a pretty smart guy.
- And he's an astrophysicist. So according to this guy he is even qualified to be talking about science
Bill nye isn't a scientist but he still taught science and neither Ross nor rogers are scientists either so what's the point of making that distinction then immediately ignoring it?
- Yeah Ross and Rogers aren't scientists, they thought different things
  Ross teaches art and Rogers teaches about values a lot of people in the united states should live by because the united states is a dystopian hell hole pioneered by bigots and capitalists
And Jean Claude Van Damm was a dancer first. Who the hell cares? They inspire people to explore science and teach the fundamentals of science. Nowhere in the meme do they claim to be anything other than inspiration.