Frases de Phil Plait

Philip Plait [1]​ es un astrónomo que ha creado la página web badastronomy.com. Philip trabaja en el departamento de física y astronomía de la Universidad Estatal de Sonoma, aunque ha colaborado y colabora actualmente con la NASA.

Plait dedica su tiempo a investigar y divulgar los errores e inexactitudes de astrónomos y científicos que pretenden, según Plait, cambiar la realidad para adaptarla a sus teorías. Todo su trabajo está recogido en una página web llamada Bad Astronomy , cuyo propósito principal es refutar las teorías apoyadas en fundamentos erróneos, como el creacionismo, la astrología, la cara de Marte, las teorías de la conspiración de los alunizajes del Programa Apolo o la mentira de que el asteroide Tutatis chocaría con la Tierra, rebatiéndolas científicamente. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. septiembre 1964
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“If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae."”

Philip Plait libro Bad Astronomy

Fuente: Bad Astronomy (2002), p. 47
Fuente: Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"

“I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.”

"The mainstreaming of crazy" (8 September 2009) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/08/the-mainstreaming-of-evil/
Bad Astronomy blog

“Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.”

Philip Plait libro Bad Astronomy

Fuente: Bad Astronomy (2002), p. 115

“What I have discovered in 20 years of studying the universe, from here to there to everywhere, is that the universe is complicated, and when things happen, it is almost never like ‘A happened and therefore B’. No, A happened and therefore B, C, D and E, but then there is this thing F, and that had a 10% effect, and that prompted G to go back and tip over A, and it is always like this – everything is interconnected. And so a lot of these far-right fundamentalist religion people, and a lot of these people who are anti-global warming, anti-evolution, anti-science, what they do is they take advantage of the fact that things are complicated, and their lives are based on things being simple – if we do this, then this will happen – if we invade Iraq, we will be treated as liberators, if we pray, then good things will happen, and this stuff is wrong. But we have a culture where people are brought up to believe in simplicity, and if A then B. And so when you point out that scientists say the earth is warming, but we had a really devastating winter this year, then these people will say “oh, obviously global warming is wrong.””

No, global warming can cause worse winters locally. It’s complicated. But people don’t want to hear “it’s complicated”, and boy, the conspiracy theorists and anti-scientists take full advantage of that.
Skepticality http://www.skepticality.com/index.php ep. 52 http://www.skepticality.com/notes/sn_Ep52.php (15 May 2007) 23:11 - 24:46
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