Philip Plait (a.k.a. The Bad Astronomer) is an astronomer who runs the website Badastronomy.com. He formerly worked at the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University. In early 2007 he resigned his job to write on his new book "Death from the Skies". Wikipedia
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Phil Plait. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Plait
Dr. Phil Plait is very excited about working on programs that educate people about high-energy astronomy. He spent many years as a research astronomer and programmer and now is the research manager for the GLAST EPO Team. Phil has come to Sonoma county epo.sonoma.edu/group/plait.html
The James Randi Educational Foundation is a non-profit learning resource aimed at promoting critical thinking everywhere. www.randi.org/jr/2006-03/030306plait.html#i2
At his popular Bad Astronomy Web site, Phil Plait has long corrected misconceptions about the universe, skewered crackpots, and chastised the news media for purveying pseudoscience (NetWatch, 2 June 2000, p. 1543). www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/311/5769/1841e?rss=1