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Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit (tpg.com.au)
37 points by tokenadult on Nov 8, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



I like to look flexibly at things. This is a good case in point. The submitter sees this as a baloney detection kit. I think it makes a good political campaign strategy guide.


I thought all of these were common sense? ;)


This is from his book, 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World I love this book for explaining in simple human terms why we need science so much.


They're all common forms of nonsense. That sounds similar!


Somebody send this to the IPCC




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