The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan · 1995
Sagan's guide to critical thinking and the scientific method, written as a passionate defense of reason against superstition, pseudoscience, and deliberate disinformation. In an era of proliferating nonsense, its chapter "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection" reads as prophecy. Reddit's most-recommended book about thinking.
The case against
Sagan makes his case by chapter two and keeps making it for four hundred pages. The alien-abduction material sprawls across far more of the book than it earns, the same debunking moves recur, and a tone of patient condescension settles in whenever believers appear. As a toolkit, excellent; as a book, one essay photocopied at increasing volume.
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