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How Carl Sagan Beat Pseudoscience (The Sagan Method)
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18:21Now PlayingAstronomer Carl Sagan had a “consumer tested” method for busting pseudoscience. Here’s how it worked.
In chapter 12 (The Fine Art of Baloney Detection) of Sagan’s ‘The Demon Haunted World,'' he lays out a method for detecting and debunking pseudoscience. Whether tackling astrology, channeling, creationism, homeopathy, or alien abductions, Sagan’s ‘Baloney Detection Kit’ can handle the challenge. Scientists utilize the tools in this kit as a regular part of their work, and I think it’s time we learn how to use them in our day-to-day lives.
This Demon Haunted World review and discussion is my way of continuing the mission of Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and their peers. As Sagan in DHW, "Not explaining science seems to me perverse.
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“The Fine Art of Baloney Detection” in full:
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Sagan, C. (1995). The Fine Art of Baloney Detection. In The Demon-Haunted World. Random House.
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