Until they do, skeptics will remain a minority.īut Sagan leaves no doubt which side he’s on, and he recognizes that the forces of ignorance are widespread and powerful. He says that skeptics fail to see and appreciate the social and psychological needs that are met by New Age beliefs. Them-the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth that those other people who believe in all those stupid doctrines are morons.” “The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement,” he writes, “is in its polarization: Us vs. Sagan’s most thought-provoking chapter offers his observation that skeptics-those who demand proof for claims rather than feel-good belief-do not fully appreciate why so many people don’t. But that is a minor quibble about a glorious book.
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