Neil DeGrasse Tyson on What's Wrong with Congress (Bill Maher)

I check these numbers: 57% of senators, 38% of the house cite 'law' as their profesion. And when you look at law, law is... Well, what happens in a courtroom? It doesn't go to what's right. It goes to who argues best. And there's this urge... The entire profesion is founded on who the best arguers are. Right, a courtroom is not about the truth. It's about- The theory, if I get what you're saying, is that everybody or each side argues their version and then the truth somehow emerges. That's the premise, how the practice, would for example, is bred in debating teams, for example, where you know the subject but you don't know which side you're going to be put on to argue. And so, the active arguing and not agreeing seems to be fundamental to that profession and congress is half that profession. I realized this when I was a kid, I was 12 and I said, "Boy, I wonder what profession all these senators and Congress are." Law, law, law, law, businessman, law, law. And I said, you know, "Scientists? Where are the engineers? Where is it the rest of life represented here?"