The Demon-haunted World - Softcover

Sagan, Carl

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ISBN 10: 0747251568 ISBN 13: 9780747251569

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 1997

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Carl Sagan demonstrates how scientific thinking is necessary to safeguard our democratic institutions and our technical civilization. The book debunks the ideas of alien abduction, mediums and faith healers,and refutes the arguement that science destroys spirituality.

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Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvellous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing and channelling, refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious and other issues.

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A brilliant populariser of astronomy and space science ... Sagan's writing is as lucid and stylish as ever. - Financial Times No one has ever succeeded in conveying the wonder, excitement and joy of science as widely as Carl Sagan and few as well ... His ability to capture the imagination of millions and to explain difficult concepts in understandable terms is a magnificent achievement. - National Academy of Sciences

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