How do we produce intelligent decisions approximately our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between your myths of pseudoscience as well as the testable hypotheses of technology?

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is crucial not only to the quest for truth but to the very well-being of our democratic establishments.

Casting a broad net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks about The Demon-Haunted World: Science like a Candle at night such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. Yet, disturbingly, in the current so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with tales of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding developing interest and respect.

Seeing that Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren melody of unreason isn’t just a cultural incorrect turn but an unhealthy plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms.

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