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The sections on Edward Teller and Frederick Douglas were especially illuminating. Don't miss out on finding out more about them as Sagan presents biographical data that will blow your mind.
Where I disagree with Sagan is his thesis at the beginning of the book; the generalization, "Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone" hardly accounts for ALL phenomena, but then Sagan is quick to respond, "But of course I might be wrong," modeling the kind of good scientist he advocates others explore becoming. And while I find his explanation of the UFO phenomena of the 1940s through the present to be the most cogent arguement against the reality of "alien abductions," I don't find Sagan advocating the study of other phenomena, like evidential mediumship. There doesn't appear to be any room for study, he's summed up the likely origins for all pseudoscience: "Miracles are attested, but what if they're instead some mix of charlatanry, unfamiliar states of consciousness, misapprehensions of natural phenomena, and mental illness?"
The beauty of this book is that Sagan posits more than he seeks to have the last word, and that should engender the respect of skeptic and pseudoscientist alike.
I loved this book, and Sagan's wonderful, subtle humor -- don't miss this rare and informative treat.
Dr. Sagan has done a marvelous job examining how pseudo-science works and what are it's effects. At times he seems irritated due to the fact that scientists of the past have not worked towards popularizing science and I think he is totally justified for that. Today, a lot of problems which scientists and scientific organizations face are due to the indifferent and elitist behavior of scientists of the past.
On the whole as good a book as any other by Carl Sagan.
--if you're looking for the mother of all sagan books to get you into his groove, Cosmos is the obvious one... if you liked the movie Contact (which was actually what inspired me to read all his books, which got me into environmentalism, and into all the physics and astronomy i study today), the book is actually much better.
quick note on Contact- though it's a novel, and "fictional", it has so many factual elements in it (things that he talks a lot about in his other books, like SETI and how ET would communicate -- through numbers and radio telescopes, etc.). i love reading non-fiction because it has that truth to it that, if it's interesting, gives it a much deeper and urgent meaning-- it actually happened, or is actually real. Contact represents the fictional novel that combines the best from fiction and non-fiction writing.
--but i digress.
demon-haunted world is an awesome piece. read it. love it. then buy another sagan book
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