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December 18th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

Bad Astronomy honors the arbitrary “end” of the solar orbit by choosing the Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008. (The Mantis God is displeased by his exclusion, and curses Phil Plait with a backyard full of biting insects.)
Skeptoid’s Brian Dunning ponders his status as a top UFO debunker, and discusses sufficiency of evidence along the way. (Quantity and quality are two distinct qualities, people.)
Get Your War On creator David Rees takes the year end top ten list to its logical extreme. (I predict “Best of 2008: Best of 2008 Lists” any minute now.)
Former South African president Mbeki’s belief in HIV denial resulted in the deaths of 365,000 people. (Call it genocide by good intentions, and don’t ever ask why it matters that we criticize crazy, anti-scientific beliefs.)