Reading for Feb 27

Hi everyone,

Next time we will continue developing our ability to tell science apart from pseudoscience.

We will discuss the material in Chapter 12 of Carl Sagan’s famous book “Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”. Please read this chapter, which is entitled “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection”, before coming to class on Feb 27th. You may also access a significantly stripped-down version of the chapter here.

Cheers,
Prof. P.