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Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was many things -- a cosmic sage, voracious reader, hopeless romantic and a brilliant philosopher, Maria Popova reports on brainpickings.org.
But above all, he endures as our era's greatest patron saint of reason and common sense, she wrote.
In The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark -- the same volume that gave us Sagan's meditation on science and spirituality -- Sagan shares his secret to upholding the rite of reason, even in the face of society's most shameless untruths and outrageous propaganda, Popova writes.
In a chapter titled The Fine Art of Baloney Detection, Sagan reflects on the many types of deception to which we're susceptible.
For more of this intriguing report: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
With thanks to my old friend Bill Goldberg for letting me know about this terrific report.
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