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    Sagan's Prophecy: Democracy in Darkness

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    Exploring Carl Sagan's eerily prescient warnings in 'The Demon-Haunted World' about critical thinking's decline and comparing his 1995 predictions to today's political landscape where pseudoscience and misinformation thrive.

    Sagan's Prophecy: Democracy in Darkness

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    Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along.

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    Carl Sagans book “Demon Haunted World” overview, then a compare and contrast to current American politics.

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