![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sagan views the ability to do this as vital not only to an individual’s healthy development, but as a counter-force to the dire lack of education and critical thinking he sees overcoming the country, turning it into a fractious nation awash in false information. Recognizing that the easy awe of pseudoscience is obscuring the natural wonders of scientific exploration and discovery, Sagan develops a Baloney Detection Kit, which prevents being misled by spurious arguments and manipulative half-truths, while enabling a clear method for determining valid information and progressively increasing knowledge. The Demon-Haunted World traces Sagan’s argument over the course of 25 chapters, in which he details the basic components of critical thinking while referring to case studies drawn from the realm of pseudoscience, ranging from alien abductions to witchcraft. ![]()
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