The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Sagan finished it while dying: alien abduction, faith healing, witch trials, and the Baloney Detection Kit that has outlived almost everything else on the subject.
Sagan’s last book, finished as he was dying, covers alien abduction, faith healing and witch trials, and argues that scientific scepticism is a civic skill rather than a temperament. It contains the Baloney Detection Kit, which has outlived nearly everything else written on the subject and is still the clearest statement of the method.
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Maria Popova
Nearly two decades before he formulated his superb “Baloney Detection Kit” in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark — the benediction of reality completed just before that chance mutation of cells claimed his life
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