Frases de Phil Plait

Philip Cary Plait, Ph.D. é um astrônomo estadunidense, cético, escritor e blogger de divulgação científica. Escreveu dois livros, Bad Astronomy e Death from the Skies. Apareceu em vários documentários científicos, incluindo Phil Plait's Bad Universe no Discovery Channel. Em 4 de agosto de 2008, se tornou Presidente da James Randi Educational Foundation, servindo neste cargo até 1 de janeiro de 2010. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Setembro 1964
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Phil Plait: Frases em inglês

“If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae."”

Philip Plait livro Bad Astronomy

Fonte: Bad Astronomy (2002), p. 47
Fonte: Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"

“I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.”

"The mainstreaming of crazy" (8 September 2009) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/08/the-mainstreaming-of-evil/
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“Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.”

Philip Plait livro Bad Astronomy

Fonte: Bad Astronomy (2002), p. 115

“What I have discovered in 20 years of studying the universe, from here to there to everywhere, is that the universe is complicated, and when things happen, it is almost never like ‘A happened and therefore B’. No, A happened and therefore B, C, D and E, but then there is this thing F, and that had a 10% effect, and that prompted G to go back and tip over A, and it is always like this – everything is interconnected. And so a lot of these far-right fundamentalist religion people, and a lot of these people who are anti-global warming, anti-evolution, anti-science, what they do is they take advantage of the fact that things are complicated, and their lives are based on things being simple – if we do this, then this will happen – if we invade Iraq, we will be treated as liberators, if we pray, then good things will happen, and this stuff is wrong. But we have a culture where people are brought up to believe in simplicity, and if A then B. And so when you point out that scientists say the earth is warming, but we had a really devastating winter this year, then these people will say “oh, obviously global warming is wrong.””

No, global warming can cause worse winters locally. It’s complicated. But people don’t want to hear “it’s complicated”, and boy, the conspiracy theorists and anti-scientists take full advantage of that.
Skepticality http://www.skepticality.com/index.php ep. 52 http://www.skepticality.com/notes/sn_Ep52.php (15 May 2007) 23:11 - 24:46
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