🧩 Philosophy Oct 24, 2026 · Maria Popova

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking

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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking
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Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934–December 20, 1996) was many things — a cosmic sage, voracious reader, hopeless romantic, and brilliant philosopher. But above all, he endures as our era’s greatest patron saint of reason and critical thinking, a master of the vital balance between skepticism and openness. In The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (public library) — t

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