Thursday, March 18, 2004

Over on the left I've added Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy website. Plait, an astronomer and author, set up this site to help debunk some of the misinformation on not only astronomy but science found around the 'net. I first discovered Plait thanks to a recent article over at MSNBC discussing Richard Hoagland's efforts to promote his ideas of Mars having been once visited (if not inhabited) by intelligent life. Hoagland and others seem to be pushing the idea that NASA is purposely steering their two rovers away from anything which might prove Hoagland's pet theories.

Even if you could care less about all that you have to hand it to Plait for attempting to 'clean up' some of the nonsense that you'll find in your typical Google search for scientific information.

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