Move over, Dr. Anthony Fauci. There’s a new favorite scientist among D.C. Democrats, except this one’s not even really a scientist at all.

President Joe Biden just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to “Billy Nye, the science guy,” a former mechanical engineer-turned-TV personality-turned-liberal activist. The president awarded Nye the nation’s highest civilian honor for supposedly being a “beloved science educator for the nation … [who] inspires generations of Americans to follow facts and reason.”