![]() ![]() The demons begin to stir.'' He could write for the tabs. The siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.'' He adds: ''The candle flame gutters. ''I worry that, especially as the millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, Sagan does a good job of excluding whimsy from his own book, although he has a weakness for the apocalyptic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whimsy, make it difficult for the public to distinguish real perils from tabloid fiction and conceivably can impede our ability to take precautionary steps to mitigate the danger.'' Seldom before has a tabloid been charged Paper about a doomsday asteroid about to hit the Earth, he notes that there is a real long-term statistical threat of an asteroid impact with Earth: ''Stories like this suffuse the subject with apocalyptic exaggeration and In commenting on another story in the same He knows perfectly well that Weekly World News is a supermarket tabloid that revels in imaginative trashiness. In his new book, Carl Sagan, the scientist who once delighted millions with his television tales of stars and galaxies, casts a bilious eye on pseudoscience, antiscience and the big-headed alien who frequently graces the cover of Weekly World News. The Demon- Haunted World Science as a Candle in the Dark. The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]()
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