The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Paperback

Carl Sagan's defense of science and skeptical thinking against pseudoscience, superstition, and wishful belief. Written in 1996. More urgent now.

This book is Sagan arguing that science is not about facts, it's about a way of thinking. It's a discipline. A method. A way of asking questions that guards against our own delusions. He calls this the 'baloney detection kit.' The book is full of examples: UFOs, recovered memories, alien abductions, faith healers, and all the ways intelligent people believe things that aren't true.

Professors assign this to students who think science is just another opinion. It's also read by people recovering from conspiracy thinking who want a rational framework again. Sagan is never mean about it, just relentlessly clear. The book has aged better than you'd expect.

DETAILS
- Paperback
- Science, philosophy, skepticism, critical thinking