The Demon-Haunted World - CHAPTERED & ORGANIZED, UNABRIDGED

A note by the publisher:



I've done great work in cutting this book by chapters - somewhere else on the web you can find only a lumped version.





A fight against pseudo-science is held by many scientists of the 20th century. In this book, Carl Sagan Sagan provides a skeptical analysis of several kinds of superstition, fraud, pseudoscience and religious beliefs, such as gods, witches, UFOs and faith healing. However, based on "some experimental support," Sagan calls for serious scrutiny of a handful of seemingly inexplicable phenomena such as reincarnation and psychokinesis, not because he regards them as likely to be true, but because anomalous data deserves close scientific study.





Duration - 14.5 hours.





Contents



Preface: My Teachers

1. The Most Precious Thing

2. Science and Hope

3. The Man in the Moon and the Face on Mars

4. Aliens

5. Spoofing and Secrecy

6. Hallucinations

7. The Demon-Haunted World

8. On the Distinction Between True and False Visions....

9. Therapy

10. The Dragon in My Garage

11. The City of Grief

12. The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

13. Obsessed with Reality

14. Antiscience

15. Newton's Sleep

16. When Scientists Know Sin

17. The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder.

18. The Wind Makes Dust

19. No Such Thing as a Dumb Question . . .

20. House on Fire

21. The Path to Freedom

22. Significance Junkies

23. Maxwell and the Nerds

24. Science and Witchcraft

25. Real Patriots Ask Questions





The textbook is included.