Fans of FOX's Cosmos remake with Neil deGrasse Tyson may have missed key pieces of episodes after multiple affiliate stations reportedly aired commercials during segments on evolution and climate change. Viewers took to Reddit and Twitter to cry censorship, while stations apologized for technical difficulties. 

WTHI FOX 10 is censoring #Cosmos by cutting to commercial during the broadcast, plus regular scheduled breaks. #censorship #WTHI

— Jeff Bockhold (@jbockhold1) May 5, 2014

Cosmos, the remake of Carl Sagan's iconic narrative about space and time, has so far discussed basic scientific concepts, from evolution and the big bang to the speed of light and the physics of black holes. But not all of those theories have been accepted by all U.S. adults, despite wide acceptance in the scientific community. Accident or not, the news promotions aired over a topic that many U.S. adults are still weighing, despite a plethora of scientific evidence—evolution. 

According to a Pew Research survey from last year, one in three U.S. adults reject the idea that humans evolved over time into the species we are today, arguing that humans existed in present from since the beginning of time. 

Viewers watching New Orleans' WVUE station missed 84-seconds of Tyson discussing global climate change as it relates to evolution, according to the Times-Picayune. A news promotion, public service announcement and commercials aired for five minutes, and a minute and a half into the show before Tyson moved on to gravitational pull and weather. The station apologized, citing a technical glitch, and said that the episode would re-air late Thursday night. 

Similarly, when Cosmos premiered two months ago, an Oklahoma FOX-affiliate station, KOKH, showed a news promo over 20-seconds of Tyson's evolution talk, attributing the cut to an operator error. 

All of the Cosmos episodes are available for free streaming online—and uncensored.

The original Cosmos series with Carl Sagan broadcast an evolution segment on PBS in 1980. A 1982 Gallup poll revealed that U.S. adults were split on whether God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years, or humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. Gallup conducted the same survey 30 years later and found that the numbers had not changed.