Phil Plait
Asteroid Defense and Scientific Error | Science Communication
Most recently at TEDxBoulder in 2018.
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Phil Plait has spent his life evangelizing science, getting the word out about the real world and how we know what we know about it.
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The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses -- through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. "The price of doing science is admitting when you're wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding," he says.
2 talks, all in 2018
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