Dr. Phil Plait: Bad Astronomer at Gnomedex - Part V
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Uploaded by samaralectures on Oct 26, 2009
This is Part 5 and the final part of Dr. Phil Plait's lecture at the Gnomedex 9.0 conference in Seattle in August 2009. He answers questions about how to make skepticism powerful enough to have an effect, and how to balance a life of debunking with financial constraints.
After earning his doctorate in astronomy at the University of Virginia, Dr. Plait worked as a NASA contractor at the Goddard Space Flight Center, working with the Hubble Space Telescope. He began a career in public outreach and education with the 'Bad Astronomy' website and blog, debunking bad science and popular misconceptions. The book Bad Astronomy was released in 2002, to be followed in 2008 by Death From The Skies! For more info, visit: http://samaralectures.com/pplait.html
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