Taking a tip from Jimmy Kimmel, scientist Bill Nye has decided to read mean tweets about himself.
The Science Guy read and responded to the trollish tweets to promote the Kickstarter campaign for the upcoming documentary about his life.
Surprise, surprise -- a lot of his mean tweets are from climate change deniers. Nye hilariously shuts them down, even retorting to one troll with this classy little response: "I'm sorry you're cluttering up the Internet."
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To be fair, a couple of the tweets weren't entirely mean. One user joked that they'd "forever hate" Nye for writing a book called Undeniable and not calling it UndeNYEable instead. Fair enough.
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