Sounds like Neil deGrasse Tyson is Team Scientology — or, at least, he’s not interested in condemning the faith-based belief system.
With Scientology once again awash in controversy following the premiere of the HBO documentary “Going Clear,” pop astrophysicist Tyson defended the religion in an interview with the Daily Beast, suggesting that the beliefs of Scientology aren’t any more fantastical than those of other faiths.
“So, you have people who are certain that a man in a robe transforms a cracker into the literal body of Jesus saying that what goes on in Scientology is crazy?” Tyson asked, when the subject was broached.