Point of View: Carl Sagan's 'Baloney Detection Kit' captures us today
On 1997 the brilliant and wise sage astrophysicist Dr. Carl Sagan wrote: “In popularizing science and trying to make its methods and findings accessible to non scientists, it then follows naturally that not explaining science seems to me to be perverse. But there’s another reason: science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s and grandchildren’s time when the U.S. is only a service and information economy, when awesome technological powers are in the hands of very few, and no one representing the pu...
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