Lab Out Loud

Today's guest calls himself the Bad Astronomer.  Phil Plait is an astronomer, an author, and a well-known blogger at www.badastronomy.com.  Phil talks to us about myths and skepticism in the science classroom. Special Announcement: Don't miss Lab Out Loud's Conference Coverage live from the NSTA conference in Boston! Preview from the show: Plait: I am in fact a skeptic.  In the public mind - if you ask somebody "what's a skeptic" - most people think it's a cynic or a denier, somebody who just doesn't believe in anything.  And that's not strictly true.  All a skeptic is, is someone who demands evidence for a claim.  If you come up to me and say the sky is pink, I'm going to say "what is your evidence for this?".  Or I'll say, "that's an interesting claim, but here's the evidence against it."  It's someone who applies critical thinking, logic, evidence, observation, the scientific method to any sort of claim. Science is all about skepticism.  They are hardly different - I mean skepticism is a tool of scien