winston_j 's review for:

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

4.5

challenging informative sad medium-paced

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Written in 1995, Carl Sagan saw our present moment clearly. He warned us about the rise of pseudo- and anti-science; the embrace of conspiracy theories, hoaxes, myths; the inability of most Americans to discern fact from fiction. He worried that democracy couldn't survive in the presence of such ignorance. He appears to have been right.