Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit

I searched before posting this- "no matches found"

a pretty useful bit of info when it comes to drawing conclusions about many of the mysteries of life and beyond-


"The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments"







www.clambake.org...

[Edited on 12-3-2003 by exdog]

Carl Sagan's approach in "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark", was to extensively quote the tabloid The Weekly World News. His results are skewed at best as a result.

[Edited on 3-12-2003 by heelstone]

Originally posted by heelstone
Carl Sagan's approach in "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark", was to extensively quote the tabloid The Weekly World News to prove everything as a myth. His results are skewed at best as a result.

I did not know that
I still think the outline is useful, don't you?

Right. His views on looking for facts in this baloney detection kit thing are valid, but he himself disregarded all real physical data on many things regarding the unknown. Especially UFOs/extraterrestrial visitation. Whatever the case, Sagan did not practice what he preached.

gotcha

Thanks for the input...I don't not much about him, other than a few documentaries I have seen