While he touches on various sorts of pseudoscience andantiscience, including repressed memories of all sorts,creationism, belief in miracles and, to his credit, the claims oftobacco companies that cigarettes have not been shown to beharmful, Mr. Sagan's primary target is the widespread belief inalien abductions . . . he is seldom wrong . . . [and] he alwayswrites clearly. -- The New York Times Book Review, JamesGorman
【作者简介】
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and science popularizer. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for his popular science books and the television series Cosmos, which he co-wrote and presented. He also wrote the novel Contact on which the 1997 film of the same name starring Jodie Foster was based. In his works, he frequently advocated the scientific method. (From Wikipedia.org)
【目录】
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
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