Bad Astronomy: misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing "hoax" by Philip Plait. 277 p.Philip Plait has an ongoing blog called Bad Astronomy (blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/) that I'm going to have to check out. He's quite good at explaining, say, the phases of the moon, or why the sky is blue. The examples he uses are easy to picture and understand. He's not quite as easy to follow when he's debunking young earth creationism, but I think that has a lot to do with the size and complexity of that particular topic. I was glad to see the chapter on the Apollo moon "hoax"--I've always wondered what the motive of this alleged hoax was supposed to be. Plait does a good job of spelling it out, along with discussing why the hoaxers' "evidence" doesn't prove what they say it proves.
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