Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
Carl Sagan was most definitely not an astrologist! As he himself said in his excellent essay, The Burden of Skepticism:

"If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But there is a kind of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the good. And for this I think we have to blame, first, the scientific community ourselves for not doing a better job of popularizing science, and second, the media, which are in this respect almost uniformly dreadful. Every newspaper in America has a daily astrology column. How many have even a weekly astronomy column? And I believe it is also the fault of the educational system. We do not teach how to think. This is a very serious failure that may even, in a world rigged with 60,000 nuclear weapons, compromise the human future.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
Hm, my mistake. It seems that he wouldn't be the type to have spread any form of false influence throughout the media in the form of prognosticative crap.

I stand corrected.

Must have been thinking of Nostradamus.

..and I was probably high when I posted.
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