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4. Sagan was a big BSer himself.

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Thu Nov 9, 2023, 11:17 PM

Nov 2023

He "calculated" how many planets would contain life by making up numbers. I remember watching that show on TV and wondering how he got away with that.

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1+ keithbvadu2 Nov 2023 #1

K and freaking R Blue Owl Nov 2023 #2

Dictators don't like critical thinking. It messes up their plan...nt mitch96 Nov 2023 #3

Sagan was a big BSer himself. Wonder Why Nov 2023 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author BootinUp Nov 2023 #5

I stand by what I said. He got too much into polularizing science that, IMHO, he was trying to prove that other Wonder Why Nov 2023 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author BootinUp Nov 2023 #14

His book or his show. I'm referring to the latter where he did a lot of speculating but didn't make it clear when he did Wonder Why Nov 2023 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author BootinUp Nov 2023 #16

If I remember correctly. Woodwizard Nov 2023 #6

That's right and that's not science. It was BS. Science uses proofs for facts, not invented numbers. Wonder Why Nov 2023 #7

Good science often, and perhaps most of the time, originates from speculation. NNadir Nov 2023 #9

But he did not call it science. Woodwizard Nov 2023 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author BootinUp Nov 2023 #12

A bigger problem than not liking what you saw on a TV show Warpy Nov 2023 #13

I was never a big Sagan fan, but I do like his statements of logical fallacies better than many others I read. NNadir Nov 2023 #11