Comments on: No bones about it http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:27:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: A New Arbitrary Celestial Orbital « Eclectics Anonymous http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25980 A New Arbitrary Celestial Orbital « Eclectics Anonymous Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:13:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25980 [...] Plait, Bad Astronomer and gentle loser to squids, has an excellent post about the astronomical meaning of the word year. This is important to those [...] […] Plait, Bad Astronomer and gentle loser to squids, has an excellent post about the astronomical meaning of the word year. This is important to those […]

]]> By: EDP http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25979 EDP Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:00:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25979 Ernest Rutherford is the author of the "stamp collecting" quote. I suspect no one will read this however. Ernest Rutherford is the author of the “stamp collecting” quote. I suspect no one will read this however.

]]> By: The Bad Astronomer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25978 The Bad Astronomer Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:03:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25978 Hoody, thanks for the votes, but... PZ is many things, but a boor? I don't think so. He's up-front, and completely honest in his passion. I don't think he's rude, or unmannerly. He didn't start this fight, and the lies told by creationists set the bar far lower than he has ever been. He is angry, but so am I. I don't think he damages the community; quite the contrary, he enhances it. Incidentally, many of his readers are here too. I'm one of 'em. Hoody, thanks for the votes, but…

PZ is many things, but a boor? I don’t think so. He’s up-front, and completely honest in his passion. I don’t think he’s rude, or unmannerly. He didn’t start this fight, and the lies told by creationists set the bar far lower than he has ever been. He is angry, but so am I. I don’t think he damages the community; quite the contrary, he enhances it.

Incidentally, many of his readers are here too. I’m one of ‘em.

]]> By: hoody http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25977 hoody Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:53:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25977 Here's the thing. PZ and his followers really ARE spineless, and not in the invertebrate sense. Sorry, Doc. I voted for you -repeatedly- as PZ is a useless boor who damages the general blogging community. Too bad you didn't win. Here’s the thing. PZ and his followers really ARE spineless, and not in the invertebrate sense.

Sorry, Doc. I voted for you -repeatedly- as PZ is a useless boor who damages the general blogging community. Too bad you didn’t win.

]]> By: Marc Buhler http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25946 Marc Buhler Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:12:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25946 Yeah, Phil... it was me. I did work against you in support of PZ but that was a call I had to make in using talk.origins to fight the dirty fight. Us biologists have been having a much harder time from the cretinismist... , er, creationists, than you astro-boys are having. If Darwin had never come along and Galileo was left to attract the ire of fundamentalist cretins, then you would be dealing with rants about how "you Galileoists" are destroying the moral basis of the world and how the orbits were "designed" to be what they seem etc etc. while we biologists would just be drawing pretty pictures of flowers. There were some moments I thought you were going to take the prize, and I'm glad that you gave PZ such a good run. Just so you know, I often show people around here the ISS when it can be viewed here in Sydney and we also spotted both the shuttle and the Russian craft on their recent visits. Also, I make my boys use the AstroPic of the Day page as their "homepage" when they go on the internet and they often get excited about whatever the picture is and have me come look. Congrats and being a close second place! (And put your song for PZ on you-tube, OK?) (signed) marc Yeah, Phil… it was me. I did work against you in support of PZ but that was a call I had to make in using talk.origins to fight the dirty fight. Us biologists have been having a much harder time from the cretinismist… , er, creationists, than you astro-boys are having. If Darwin had never come along and Galileo was left to attract the ire of fundamentalist cretins, then you would be dealing with rants about how “you Galileoists” are destroying the moral basis of the world and how the orbits were “designed” to be what they seem etc etc. while we biologists would just be drawing pretty pictures of flowers.

There were some moments I thought you were going to take the prize, and I’m glad that you gave PZ such a good run. Just so you know, I often show people around here the ISS when it can be viewed here in Sydney and we also spotted both the shuttle and the Russian craft on their recent visits. Also, I make my boys use the AstroPic of the Day page as their “homepage” when they go on the internet and they often get excited about whatever the picture is and have me come look. Congrats and being a close second place! (And put your song for PZ on you-tube, OK?) (signed) marc

]]> By: minusRusty http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25976 minusRusty Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:19:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25976 <blockquote>and then, in January, at TAM5, I will wholly embarrass myself by saying something nice about PZ and Pharyngula.</blockquote> Waitaminute! I thought you were supposed to SING the praises of Pharyngula at TAM5: "In addition, in his talk at The Amazing Meeting this year, he will take a moment to further sing the praises of Pharyngula (and he must spell it correctly!) before his audience."

and then, in January, at TAM5, I will wholly embarrass myself by saying something nice about PZ and Pharyngula.

Waitaminute! I thought you were supposed to SING the praises of Pharyngula at TAM5: “In addition, in his talk at The Amazing Meeting this year, he will take a moment to further sing the praises of Pharyngula (and he must spell it correctly!) before his audience.”

]]> By: ABR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25975 ABR Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:55:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/18/no-bones-about-it/#comment-25975 Gary 7, In honor of the Blog Awards, I dined on a fried cephalopodist overlord, er, that is calamari, this week. Perhaps it was the on-going battle between invertebratista versus glabrous (=bare-nekkid) vertebratophile, but the calamari seemed particularly tasty. Try it with a good marinara and/or tartar sauce. Gary 7,

In honor of the Blog Awards, I dined on a fried cephalopodist overlord, er, that is calamari, this week. Perhaps it was the on-going battle between invertebratista versus glabrous (=bare-nekkid) vertebratophile, but the calamari seemed particularly tasty. Try it with a good marinara and/or tartar sauce.

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