Neil deGrasse Tyson is going to need a better explanation for the harassment charges against him

Published December 6, 2018 6:18pm ET



It seems that for every maligned Brett Kavanaugh, there are two dozen guilty-as-sin Roy Moores. Pop astrophysicist and Twitter wet blanket Neil deGrasse Tyson is the latest celebrity under fire for alleged sexual harassment and assault, and as journalists dig deeper into the previously ignored allegations, things are looking worse and worse for him.

For four years, Tchiya Amet has publicly accused Tyson of drugging her and raping her in 1984, while the two of them were the only black graduate students in the astronomy department of the University of Texas at Austin. The story was relegated to her blog and a quick, mostly ignored article on the Christian blog Patheos. Now there are three other women accusing Tyson of sexual harassment. BuzzFeed News has now interviewed more than 30 people over the course of three years regarding all four allegations.

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