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Blogs / Bad Astronomy

Phil Plait


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NASA chiefs to talk MSL

Bad Astronomy | December 3rd, 2008 in NASA, Piece of mind | No Comments »

Chemical romance

Bad Astronomy | December 3rd, 2008 in Antiscience, Cool stuff, Debunking, Piece of mind, Skepticism | 20 Comments »

Roger Ebert slams Ben Stein

Bad Astronomy | December 3rd, 2008 in Antiscience, Debunking, Piece of mind, Religion, Science | 31 Comments »

Spacewriter writes about space

Bad Astronomy | December 3rd, 2008 in DeathfromtheSkies! | 8 Comments »

Touching Hubble’s history

Bad Astronomy | December 3rd, 2008 in Astronomy, Cool stuff, Piece of mind, Skepticism, TV/Movies | 33 Comments »

Doctor Who comes out of the Cybercloset

Bad Astronomy | December 2nd, 2008 in SciFi, TV/Movies | 36 Comments »

What if a large asteroid were on its way in?

Bad Astronomy | December 2nd, 2008 in Astronomy, Cool stuff, DeathfromtheSkies!, Science, Space | 33 Comments »

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    • What happened to Bad Astronomy???

      If you went to BadAstronomy.com and found yourself here, never fear: the BA Blog has moved to its new home at Discover Blogs. The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking and all that) is still online, too.

      Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.

    • Death from the Skies!


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      "If things worked the way I wanted them to, any reporter about to do another 'sensational' story on deadly meteors would consult this volume, and bang! common sense would find its way into the news. How strange would that world be?"
      -- Adam Savage, Mythbusters

      "Reading this book is like getting punched in the face by Carl Sagan. Frightening, but oddly exhilarating."
      -- Daniel H. Wilson, author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising



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      The opinions and ideas expressed in this blog are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of Discover Magazine and/or the James Randi Educational Foundation, of which Dr. Plait serves as President.
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