The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
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Criticial-thinking
Rationalism
Rationality
Science
skepticism
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don”t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.
Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today’’s so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
June 29th, 2020
Thank you for sharing
June 29th, 2020
A book that all of the people in high school desperately need to read. Along with many others. Critical thinking is becoming as lost as our humanity. Thanks. It’s been years.
June 29th, 2020
One of the great introductions to critical thinking: this book was a watershed in my life.
Thank youdaenigma100
June 29th, 2020
if trump knew how to read this would be a great first book for him.
June 29th, 2020
Trump is more of a Bill Nye guy.
June 30th, 2020
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
NAILED IT!
June 30th, 2020
Thanks for the upload
June 30th, 2020
Thanks very much for sharing
March 22nd, 2021
pleaaase keep seeding
July 17th, 2021
Thanks so much!
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