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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood. Carl Sagan 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 common sense, a master of the vital balance between skepticism and openness.
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Who the hell is downvoting everything?
Well, apparently they hate posts about yarn in video games even more! Those monsters! It seems someone, or several people, from the recent Reddit crop (most likely), downvote with relative abandon. I've been noticing it all over the site since "the incident". It's irksome.
We have a good site going here we will get through this!
Well, I mean... c'mon. It's yarn. In video games. Talk about offensive and worthy of a downvote. /s
(I'm from the recent reddit crop... but I promise it's not me doing the down voting)
What about the other down voting going on right now?
Hey, I can't have all the answers :)
We're looking into it.
:)
I'd suggest people who adhere to the far right christian agenda.
Most likely.
I am getting it too!
Interesting read. Bookmarked for future reference :)
If you like that you'll like the rest of the book.
Aye. It's on my list :)
Very nice. It's about time I go read The Demon-Haunted World.