Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Well, certainly Phil Plait can have his opinion, but why should he expect people to be any more respectful of his opinion than he is of Katie Couric's?
Well, one reason might be that he could offer good, solid evidence of the correctness of his statements and the falsity of hers. If he can't do that, then I don't see why he should have immunity from criticism of his opinions anymore than Katie Couric should.
Lance wrote:Haven't been there for a while, have you? Yes, it is exactly his main website. Go ahead and visit http://www.badastronomy.com/ and you will find yourself right smack dab on the main page of his blog. The Katie Couric story has now fallen to Page 2, but on the 18th it would have been front and center.
Lance wrote:Is Dr. Plait too fond of his growing popularity?
Lonewulf wrote:Okay, so the blog is part of the website. Whoop-de-doo.
Why shouldn't it have any opinions in it, again? By what standards?
Lance wrote:Lonewulf wrote:Okay, so the blog is part of the website. Whoop-de-doo.
Why shouldn't it have any opinions in it, again? By what standards?
By the stated goals of the website that it is an educational resource used by school children...
Bill_Thompson wrote:Lance wrote:By the stated goals of the website that it is an educational resource used by school children...
Well, that is bullshit.
Plait is peddling calendars of naked women on his home page to show how sexy skeptics can be.
Lance wrote:Bill_Thompson wrote:Lance wrote:By the stated goals of the website that it is an educational resource used by school children...
Well, that is bullshit.
Plait is peddling calendars of naked women on his home page to show how sexy skeptics can be.
Yeah, good point. Both Phil and BadAstronomy.com have changed, and not for the better.
Bandit wrote:As a banned member of BAUT it would be very easy for me to rip into Plait here for the hypocracy of posting something like this on his site (nice example to set for the kids who read it) but sometimes people don't think before they compose something .. or don't care. I think the BA would have been better served with making an attempt to address Couric on a more mature level or not at all instead of what went down.
Having said that, I think Thompson's bashing of the BA on this board is just more of the same old sour grapes for being banned over there.
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