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Carl Sagan's warning about pseudoscience resurfaces as prescient

Original: It was a prediction and prescience when Carl Sagan wrote these word more than a decade ago. There is an antidote that Sa

Carl Sagan's decades-old writings on science, skepticism and the dangers of myth and conspiracy are being widely shared again, with readers calling them strikingly prescient. The passage, highlighted via Open Culture, stresses Sagan's proposed antidote: education grounded in science and objectivity rather than superstition and pseudoscience. Commenters echo his argument that critical thinking is the best defense against misinformation.

Why now: People see Sagan's warnings about misinformation and pseudoscience as increasingly relevant to current public debate.

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• It was a prediction and prescience when Carl Sagan wrote these word more than a decade ago. There is an antidote that Sagan also believed in — education: science and objectivity, rather than myths, conspiracies and pseudosciwnce. https://www. openculture.com/2025/02/carl-s… · RunRichRun · 2

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