They have scores of people chained to their desks in a windowless basement tirelessly scouring the web looking for places that other people might like to see. One of their minions stumbled upon these very Bad Astronomy pages, and decided to put them on their list of Cool Sites. Before this event, I tracked about 100-300 hits a day on my main page . An hour later I had received about 30 emails, so I hastily tore that note down. I have received over 50,000 more.
Some websites are just so much cooler than others.
Also lambasted are horoscopes, Hollow Earth fanatics, conspiracy theorists and everyone else with a weird unprovable idea. It's the kind of page the Bad Astronomer would have if he didn't want to get letter bombs in the mail. Bad means good when it comes to the Bad Astronomy Web page. It would help if you had a little interest in astronomy before visiting the page though. Stargazers will get a kick out of the Bad Astronomer's stellar sense of humor.