News Article---Detecting Pseudo-Science BS

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With our old pal, Bad Astronomer!

How to detect pseudo-science B.S.

Climate denial … creationism … doomsday predictions … vaccination warnings: It’s all in a day’s debunking for Phil Plait, the astronomer and skeptic who weighs in on all sorts of pseudo-science.

Plait, 48, started out as a researcher delving into supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and other mysteries of the universe. But that began to change when he wrote a book titled “Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing ‘Hoax.’”