Call to Vote for BA

[ReligionStudent]

Hey everyone, Phil has recently been eclipsed (Oh wow that is a bad pun), so go vote for him on at http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-science-blog-1.php and help Bad Astronomy become the 2007 Science Blog of the Year.

[Darat]

Hang on what happens if we don't think he deserves to win? Do we still have to vote for him.... ouch.... OK.... I understand - the answer is yes.

His is certainly one of the few blogs I read and from the list there is only one other I regularly read (which I believe last year was the best... :p) so he gets my vote.

[mhaze]

Hang on what happens if we don't think he deserves to win? Do we still have to vote for him.... ouch.... OK.... I understand - the answer is yes.

His is certainly one of the few blogs I read and from the list there is only one other I regularly read (which I believe last year was the best... :p) so he gets my vote.

Then again, www.climateaudit.org could use some votes lo maintain its lead.

Although I like Bad Ast. also.

[ReligionStudent]

Hang on what happens if we don't think he deserves to win? Do we still have to vote for him.... ouch.... OK.... I understand - the answer is yes.

His is certainly one of the few blogs I read and from the list there is only one other I regularly read (which I believe last year was the best... :p) so he gets my vote.

Well obviously, I am not telling people to vote against their own thoughts, but this might get the attention of some BA fans not up on the events.

I will add that both PZ and the Skeptchicks have thrown support their support behind Phil, so that some real science blog can win the catagory.

[mhaze]

Well obviously, I am not telling people to vote against their own thoughts, but this might get the attention of some BA fans not up on the events.

I will add that both PZ and the Skeptchicks have thrown support their support behind Phil, so that some real science blog can win the catagory.

Comments about the contest from Steve McIntyre

As a result of the Weblog Awards contest, I’ve been introduced to a number of blogs, such as Bad Astronomy and Pharyngula, of which I’d been previously unaware, although they are both popular and have a loyal following. Bad Astronomy has a set of links to what it calls Anti-Antiscience sites, which include their rival Pharyngula and similar sites. “Anti-antiscience” seems to include astrology, mentalism, things like that; Phil Plait on Bad Astronomy mentions James Randi a number of times. I followed one of the links to a site called Memoirs of a SkepChick (http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=747), one of whose recent posts was a review of Criss Angel’s (pseudo ?-) altercation with a contestant on Phenomenon: After his pathetic nightclub act, Callahan was praised by the Cosby kid, the host of the show, and Uri Gellar (of course). Criss Angel then whipped out an envelope and offered Callahan and Gellar a million dollars of his own money if they could tell him what was written inside the envelope. Instead of immediately going back into his fake trance, Callahan called Angel an “ideological bigot” and lunged at him in what I suspect was intended to be a threatening manner.
Which gave me the following thought: the focus of this site is also “anti-antiscience”. The SkepChick is against lame parlor tricks and pathetic nightclub acts; so am I. MBH98 statistical methodology is essentially a parlor trick - a point that becomes obvious to any statistician that has spent the time to investigate it.

From the www.climateaudit.org (http://www.climateaudit.org) blog as of close of voting.

By Steve McIntyreOK, the voting is over. The vote (at closing) was CA 20,242; BA 18,993, but scrutinizing is still taking place. Thanks to everyone who supported Climate Audit. Both blogs obtained an incredible number of votes today and can walk away with both satisfaction and amazement. The volume in the Science blog today seems to have been far larger than any other race. Since mid-morning eastern, both Bad Astronomy and Climate Audit have amassed votes at almost exactly the same frenetic pace......<snipped>

Prior to this vote, I (and doubtless many CA readers) had been unaware of the Bad Astronomy blog (and other interesting nominees who have undeservedly not attracted the attention that deserved) and I’m sure that this same holds in reverse. I hope that readers of each blog will take the opportunity of this introduction to visit the other site; I’ve added a link to Bad Astronomy in my very short blogroll.

So for any new readers, who have arrived because of this contest, welcome. To Bad Astronomy, it’s been an interesting way to meet. To Phil Plait, let’s have a beer some time.