bad astronomer

Phil Plait's show "Bad Universe" next Sunday on the Discovery Channel. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/27/bad-universe-coming-to-a-discovery-channel-near-you/

Folks, I'm looking to write up some stuff about green laser pointers, and I was wondering if anyone took any good pictures of the one I used on the Galapagos trip. I don't have any, and a search of Flickr came up empty. If you have any, please let me know: thebadastronomer "at" gmail "dot" com...

In this thread, there is some general grumbling about dishonesty in creationist circles. Is it possible that Phil Plait--the Bad Astronomer--is setting himself up to be abused by creationists? In a blog entry entitled "The supernatural does not exist," Phil talks a bit about pseudoscience...

I have been posting blog entries about TAM 5, and just posted my fourth one, a videoblog with Randi. I think y'all will like it. I'll be posting more on Friday. Stay Tuned. Here are the other ones so far: Report #1: Name dropping and geekery Report #2: Hanging with my bud Adam Savage Report...

At the Amazing Meeting, I purchased several books and have been satisfied with them with one exception. That book would be “Bad Astronomy” by Philip C. Plait, a man who calls himself the “Bad Astronomer” While I know the saying “you cannot judge a book by its cover” is often true, the fact...

Randi has an intro in the new Skepticality podcast where he chats up TAM 5! Rebecca has a brief interview on it too, from TAM 4, and then I ramble on about silliness. There's lots of nudity, but it's a podcast. Possibly that's a good thing. If you don't listen to Skepticality, what's wrong...

Chapter 15 of "Bad Astronomy" by Phil Plait argues that meteors don't start fires. But in this story from Yahoo and Reuters, trained police officers say otherwise: For those who are a little slow on the uptake, I am not seriously suggesting that the German cops know more about meteors than BA does.

For those of you who didn't get enough of Phil "The Bad Astronomer" Plait at the TAMII, or didn't get to TAMII at all, now is your chance to catch him on the InfidelGuy Internet Radio Show this Friday at 8 PM EST. You can call in during the show to ask Phil questions or comment by dialing toll...

From another thread: Clare Williams's is one of the better rebuttals that I've found over the past three years, but the original seems to have gone missing from the net. Have you contacted Clare Williams for more information or updates? If you haven't already seen Bob Laidlaw's commentary and...