This post by the BA has inspired me to ask this question: can we come up with a list of BAD ASTRONOMY sites on the web so that we can refer people to this thread whenever they bring them up? For example, the BA basically trashes TMGnow as a source of information, but I think we could get a real good list going. So, let's put the combined resources of the Board to work and try to come up with sites that are BAD astronomically.

Here's my favorite Bad site: The Enterprise Mission <--Chock full of bad astronomy, the Illuminati, pyramids on the Moon and Mars, crystal caverns/domes on the Moon and Mars, the Face and Cydonia on Mars and the ongoing "coverup"...etc. ad nauseum...

We talked about Hoagland specifically yesterday in my 60 Minutes Australia interview. This should be interesting...

And JS, what a great thread idea! I'll have to collate these and make a Bad Links page. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

I think Irony has a large collection of these type of sites. You might want to check with her. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

I found a good one:

http://www.planetxvideo.com/

See Nancy herself speak! See the other bigwhigs of PX show their uninformed opinions. Be stupified!!

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I've spent way too many hours dealing with http://www.electric-cosmos.org/ to not nominate it. Talk about confusing to the uninitiated. Poor Orion spent way too much of his time there.

Of course, the same basic material can be found here: http://www.holoscience.com/eu/eu.htm

These links should be titled something like: "How electrical engineers can end up making themselves look foolish."

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: JS Princeton on 2003-03-03 00:32 ]</font>

While we're at it, http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/
springs to mind as another site full of difficulties even Agora admits are horrible

To round out the triumvirate of alternate cosmologies, I'm going to have to go for John Kieran's http://www.angelfire.com/az/BIGBANGisWRONG/ site

I don't know how worthy this site is, but it catalogues all of thsoe dang SOHO anomolies as evidence for UFO's:

http://www.starshipgamma.com/soho/index.htm

[Added this:] similar to above but has 2002-2003 images:
http://ovnis.esoterica.pt/princip/SOHO/soho.htm
In foreign language.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: g99 on 2003-03-03 01:01 ]</font>

We shouldn't forget our dear friends at AiG!

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home.../astronomy.asp

Geeeze, I have to choose just one? Well, all right, that would have to be this one:

http://www.setforlifeincome.com/ufo56.html

This individual would have you know that the little grey aliens with the anal probes are intelligent dinosaurs who left Earth 65 million years ago to escape the asteroid, and now they want their planet back.

He said it, not me.

Second place goes to this one:

http://www.homepages.at/stargazers/h...grave/moon.htm

The Moon is hollow. Not because it's an ancient spaceship, mind you, but because heaven is inside the Moon.

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You can tell us about more than one, irony. just have to choose a favorite (I still haven't decided on mine, yet).

However, I forgot about this list:

http://www.crank.net/astronomy.html

Most of the links we mentioned are included here, but not all of them. Of course, this very site is listed as an anticrank!

What about this one where you can find the infamous derivation of the fine structure constant based on the tetra-octahedron lattice.
http://ascension2000.com/DivineCosmos/



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Orion38 on 2003-03-03 00:56 ]</font>

I guess we could add these new ones that have recently been provided for us in another post.

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/

http://realsightings.com/

No list of crank sites is complete without the site of the first really prolific crank on USENET and the internet, Ludwig/Archimedes Plutonium:
http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/...dwigPlutonium/
This website describes his central theory of how the universe is contained in a single electron in a plutonium atom.

Ok, I'm gonna throw this page out there...it has EVERYTHING!

Psychicspy.com(org)

They bill themselves as "The Real X-Files" hehe...

I have no regrets. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

My favorite bad astronomy site (other than BA's site) is Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial section:

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/errors.html

I can always jump over to read about some real science (without leaving the site) after I have had enough of bad science for awhile.

ljbrs [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ljbrs on 2003-03-03 21:28 ]</font>

http://www.skypub.com/
yeah? {see next post}
Leave it to:
illogical negativism
to get it in reverse
now back to WEB LOG {in five minutes}?(maybe)



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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: HUb' on 2003-03-08 10:17 ]</font>

I assume, Hub', that this is a good site and not a bad one [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

I nominate http://www.ezrelativity.com not so much because it's bad, but because it doesn't conform to well-accepted conventional wording nor pay tribute to and venerate Einstein.

The photon belt

I think we can agree to this one.

www.zetatalk.com

[EDIT] tried fixing link

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Vermonter on 2003-03-09 10:18 ]</font>

Vermonter: What are you talking about that is one of the greatest and most respectable sites this side of http://www.moonmovie.com !!!

Arrggg...Even i cant stand a bold faced lie like that. I recant....[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]