# News Article---Detecting Pseudo-Science BS

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-article-detecting-pseudo-science-bs/670225>\
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**Created:** [October 2, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-article-detecting-pseudo-science-bs/670225 "2013-10-02T23:37:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-article-detecting-pseudo-science-bs/670225/1 "2013-10-02T23:37:44Z")

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With our old pal, **Bad Astronomer**!

> **[How to detect pseudo-science B.S.](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/how-detect-pseudo-science-b-s-8C11323108)**

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> 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.
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> 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.’”