From the ThinkingAthiest: The Pale Blue Dot – A Tribute to Carl Sagan Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
Archive of posts tagged Sagan
Anti-science at the Science Museum
DC’s Improbable Science has an article about the strange decisions made by the Science Museum for an exhibit on medicine. Unfortunately it seems that the Science Museum has ended-up promoting anti-science. Coupled with their PR statements it seems that the Science Museum doesn’t actually know what Science is. The Science museum promotes anti-science in a [...]
BBC Horizon – Science Under Attack
I was going to post something about the recent BBC Horizon episode “Science Under Attack” but I held off as I needed to calm down after witnessing, in my humble opinion, the bizarre behaviour of Daily Telegraph journalist James Delingpole. Well, I’ve calmed down now and have seen that richarddawkins.net has some commentary on this [...]
Damning article on Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests
Quackometer has written a well-thought and damning article on Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests: Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2010/07/doctors-data-bogus-tests.html Carl Sagan said: We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or [...]
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit
Carl Sagan’s book “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark” includes ideas and tools for skeptical thinking. The following are recommended as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent reasoning: TOOLS (1) Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts. (2) Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by [...]
