Neil deGrasse Tyson clarifies his viral comments about Scientology to Joe Rogan.

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The Scientology documentary came out on HBO and everybody was talking about it.

[00:00:03]One of the news outlets, I forgot who, called me up and said, "Do I think Scientology should be a religion?" You can ask well, why are they calling me?

[00:00:13]Well, because in Scientology, there aliens and if they're space beings that come >> to give up this information.

[00:00:19]>> Oh, oh, sorry. I I So, my answer was, we live in a country that protects the free expression of faith-based systems, provided they don't subtract from the rights of others. So, I will not sit here and judge whether thetans from space exhume souls from volcanoes.

[00:00:42]At least a third of what I just said is accurate. It's from from Scientology.

[00:00:47]You know what the headline was? Tyson defends >> [laughter] >> Scientology. Of course. That's how you get clicks.

[00:00:53]That's was the clickbait of my comment there.

[00:00:56]>> clicked.