Phil Plait, uh, dux

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Having slagged off a richly deserving someone from last weeks commentary (Nancy Grace, may she apend eternity in obscurity), I feel it necessary to praise someone from another commentary. Happily, Phil Plait gave me this opportunity by having a very concise and to the point speech featured this week in Swift.

Yay Phil!

Again, nothing of substance to add. I just wanted to say I dug the speech.
 
I copied and pasted his speech and sent it out in an email along with his name and website address to over a dozen eople. Hopefully, this will spread as quickly as those "send this to five people in ten minutes" messages I get every now and then.

Michael
 
Wow, thanks for pointing this out. I have a blog entry already written about Randi's newsletter; I'll probably post it on Monday.

-Phil
 
Phil,

Yes, it was very well put. Perhaps it will be the next "chain mail".... :)
 
CFLarsen said:
Perhaps it will be the next "chain mail".... :)
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I doubt it. I've never seen a chain letter that did anything but misquote the Bible or the Koran, or promise me good luck (or bad, if I broke the chain, which I do every chance I get), money, or sex, or attempt to spread a computer virus or hoax, or...
 
The Bad Astronomer said:
Wow, thanks for pointing this out. I have a blog entry already written about Randi's newsletter; I'll probably post it on Monday.
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Uh, Phil?

Here's a little something else I pasted from your web site:
Are you psychic?
Take this simple test to determine your level of psychic ability.
www.sixthsearch.com
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Have you gone over to the Dark Side?
 
Beady said:
http://www.badastronomy.com/

That link is gone, now. It was in the column of links on the far right of the page, headed "Ads by Goooooogle". The top ad is now titled, "Astronomy, Science and God."
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I believe the way Google Ads works is to try and get the context of the site, and post ads appropriately.. Those ads would not have been endorsed by the owner of the website.
 
The website owner can block particular ads from that service, I suspect there just happen to be an awful lot of objectionable (to a skeptic) ads to block. The one advertising the pro-moon hoax books was particularly ironic (before Phil blocked it).
 
I think Phil recently commented that Google allows blocking of only a certain number of ads, and there are far too many woo-woo advertisers to control them all.

We BABBers rather enjoy the ads. Some even click on them, just to cost the advertiser whatever they pay Google per click.
 
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