Skip to content
Answering Your Questions About Reactor: Right here.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Everything in one handy email.
When one looks in the box, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the cat.

Reactor

Phil Plait, scientist, skeptic, author, and everyone’s favorite Bad Astronomer, has announced that his new show will premiere on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, August 29th at 10:00 pm (Eastern Time). The three-part program will feature Plait exploring popular myths and gleefully debunking junk science propagated by TV and movies through his command of clear and cogent scientific fact and reasoning…and the power of awesome explosions:

Fascinating doomsday scenarios, skepticism, and blowing stuff up in the interest of science: what’s not to like? Phil Plait’s Bad Universe promises to unleash the theoretical love child of Carl Sagan and the Mythbusters on all manner of dubious Hollywood “science,” and I, for one, can’t wait to watch him start blowing holes in it. Literally.


Bridget McGovern is looking forward to watching Phil Plait prove once and for all that the strategic deployment of Bruce Willis, a scrappy crew of character actors and a terrible Aerosmith power ballad might not be humanity's most effective method of avoiding mass extinction.

About the Author

About Author Mobile

Bridget McGovern

Author

Bridget McGovern is the Managing Editor of Reactor. She wasn’t really all that screwed up by Watership Down, if you don’t count the fact that she just stays up nights writing frantically about bunnies (and will always maintain a vague but potent distrust of Art Garfunkle).
Learn More About Bridget
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
4 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments