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Summary: Amazing...truly an eye opener!!!
Review: This is the best book I've read in ages. I recommend it to everyone...no exceptions. Upon reading it, the reader will find himself free of the chains of his irrational beliefs. He will wonder why he believed in such non-sense, when reason and logic points the other way. It's truly an amazing book. It's true...the truth REALLY sets you free!!!
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Summary: Don't be a fool.......be a skeptic
Review: This book should serve as an inspiration to us all. Carl Sagan does an outstanding job explaining the dangers of pseudoscience. His writing style is both humble and respectful. Although Sagan himself does not beleive in things like aliens, faith healing, astrology, etc., he is sympathetic to those who do. There are no negative words or personal attacks on people. I still find myself reaching for this book from the shelf to provide myself with a source of inspiration. This book can be summarized with the following statement: Be skeptical- If something sounds outrageous, it probably is
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Summary: Give this book to your friends
Review: I always knew that Sagan was the best science writer in recent memory bar none (and by far the best scientist writing on science) but this, his next to last book, really is a slam-dunk. Humanity's loss at his death was immeasurable.
The only bad thing I can say about this book is that the people who stand to learn most from it are probably never going to read it. If you have even the remotest interest in science (or pseudo-science for that matter), you will find this fascinating and stimulating reading.
Buy a couple of copies for yourself and your friends. I heartily recommend it to younger readers who might realize that the real celebrities and role models aren't strutting their stuff on MTV and ESPN but holed up in a science lab somewhere.
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Summary: enlightening and inspiring, highly recommended
Review: Carl Sagan's book makes for easy but enlightening and inspiring reading. I highly recommend it for the person who is science and socially-minded who feels out-of-step with our society's lack of understanding of the world around them. This book should be required reading in our high schools by students and teachers alike
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Summary: Sagan's best ever.
Review: A knowledge jewel with no doubt. But I wonder how many science facts today, were considered pseudo-science 100 or 200 years ago?. We need one Carl Sagan every fifty years at least ; Shadows of forgotten ancestors is another "magical ? " book of Dr. Sagan.
We are going to miss him.
Let's encourage our kids to follow his steps.
Claudio Rousselon. Cancun, Mexico
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Summary: Sagan's sane antidote to modern foolishness
Review: Thirty years ago Time's cover asked "Is God Dead?" A few weeks ago, it asked if aliens really landed at Roswell. That pretty much sums up the decline of the mass media as propagators of a rational, skeptical worldview. Carl Sagan's next-to-last book takes a much-needed skeptic's tour through such foolishness as alien abduction, calmly, even sympathetically explaining why people are so willing to believe utter foolishness (such as that fetus-like aliens are traveling millions of light years to perform intergalactic proctology), and the part our schools and mass media have played in making us a science-illiterate but pseudoscience-happy nation. It's particulary interesting as an antidote to the movie version of Sagan's own Contact-- repudiating in advance the film's endorsement of blind faith over careful reason
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Summary: A book of wonder and skepticism for teachers.
Review: I hope that teachers will find the time to read this book. I know that the focus of my teaching has changed as result of the ideas that Carl Sagan presents. I now realize how important it is to help children look with wonder and skepticism at the world. Carl SaganÍs ideas relating to this are informative and will hopefully inspire other educators to take a good hard look at what teaching is all about
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Summary: Bad Title, Great Book
Review: Carl Sagan started something with this book, and I have made it my job to help continue his work. If you hear someone profess to know something which you know is wrong, you do them no service by letting them stay ignorant. You owe them and yourself a debate on the matter. If you don't speak up, how can they move out of ignorance? Why chance it? We've all got a limited amount of time for everything. Look at Carl! He didn't wait to speak out for the Search For Truth.
> God, here I am, a 40 year old "fan". I can't say that I'm embarrassed, though. I feel better as a fan of Carl Sagan's than a baseball or football fan, any day.
> If you liked the book, tell a friend or acquaintance. Spread the word. If you didn't like the book, tell others NOT to read it. That may cause some of them to pick it up and decide for themselves.
> The title of the book should have been
"Science is Lighting a Candle for You, Look Around!". "Demon Haunted World" is a title that people might find while searching for "devil" and "haunted houses"... but you know, that may have been Carl's idea. This way, he may catch the ones that need to read his book the most!
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Summary: Sagan's best work
Review: Carl Sagan was one of the few scientists nowadays interested inthe fate of humankind AND communicating science to the common man. Hesaw intelligence and freedom as being intertwined. Sagan was appalled at the amount of pseudoscience in the world today, as characterized by his debunking of alien abductions, New Agers, psychics, and various other false sciences. Although I was disappointed that he did not push non-belief and athiesm more in the book, Sagan did attack blind faith and theology. He was obviously an educated athiest, yet to make it palatable to the masses he did not devote a chapter to the one mythology he should have; religion. Still, Carl does an excellent job at conveying why the numerous pseudosciences are phony in laymen's terms. Anyone from juniour high level, perhaps even before that, to Ph. D's can read this book and still be enthralled by it. The whole book is about one thing: learn to think for yourself. Don't take things unquestioningly and always be skeptical. I am saddened by Sagan's death, yet I believe that this book will carry his ideas to the masses. If we understand what he stood for, he will never truly be gone to us.
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Summary: An excellent resource for rational thinking
Review: This book does a superb job of warning about the dangers of wishful thinking and the power and beauty of the scientific approach.
The late Carl Sagan's enthusiasm, intelligence and humanity shines through in this, his last book
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