Neil deGrasse Tyson apologizes for weekend tweet about death

Neil deGrasse Tyson has learned after a tweet that pointing out truths is not always helpful.
The astrophysicist and author apologized Monday for a Sunday tweet in which he noted more people died in less attention-getting ways in the same two-day period as a pair of mass shootings.
He concluded his tweet with: “Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.” The tweet trended on Twitter and prompted outrage of being tone-deaf in nature.
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