Neil DeGrasse Tyson headed down same loony road as Carl Sagan?

It is amazing to see people lie with sincerity , not just the people who conjured up relativity and their followers today but Newton himself who organised astronomical and timekeeping components (which do not naturally sit together) towards his experimental agenda.

The direct/retrograde motions of the planets require two different resolutions seen from a moving Earth with relative speeds and orbital circumferences requiring different perspectives. Sir Isaac created a contrived notion that is external to any astronomical precept although it certainly explains what he was trying to do with modelling a system using RA/Dec -

"For to the earth planetary motions appear sometimes direct, sometimes
stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the sun they are
always seen direct,..." Newton


Unlike the slower moving planets where a Sun centered system is indirectly inferred by a faster moving Earth overtaking slower moving planets causing them to temporarily fall behind in view (direct/retrograde motion), we see the back and forth motions of Venus and Mercury as they run faster in their smaller circuit around a stationary and central Sun.