ScienceBook · 1995
The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan
Sagan sets out what he calls the baloney detection kit: nine tools for weighing evidence, from independent confirmation and multiple working hypotheses to Occam's razor and falsifiability, followed by a catalogue of twenty logical fallacies to watch for. The book is at its best when it treats science as a way of thinking with an error-correcting machine built into it rather than a body of settled facts.
Why you should read this
Sagan's case for skepticism and the scientific method, aimed at a general audience worried about pseudoscience and declining public trust in evidence. Best for readers who want the reasoning spelled out step by step, with the 'baloney detection kit' chapter doing much of the practical work.
- Field
- Science
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1995
- Themes
- Scientific ThinkingScience
