Study and cite Sagan's comment about the environmental movement and the fallacy he said is connected to his comment.Check the comments on the subject at the Web sites "Why Explore Space?" "Why We Must Explore Space," and "How Does Space Benefit You?" (See their urls cited in the Related Internet Sites section below.) Think of and explain another comment or example that supports Sagan's view. Study Sagan's comment about space exploration and the fallacy he said is connected to his comment.Find and state another fallacy Sagan noted, study his example of it, then think of, and explain, another example. Study and explain the fallacies "appeal to ignorance," "observational selection," and "it happened after, so was caused by." Develop examples following Sagan's criteria.Give examples from your life, happenings around you, and historical or current news events. Study what Sagan said about the "spin more than one" hypothesis, and his "chain and link" concept.Give an example of Occam's Razor, then think of other examples one each for variables, and double-blind.
State how Sagan defined skeptical thinking.(Hint: To answer the second part of this question, see the first part, then the last part, of the "Detection Kit" document that is this chapter's main site.) Give an example from your life when you would "bring out" Sagan's "Detection Kit." Tell how this kit could be misused, and how it could help you.(Its main title is The Demon-Haunted World.) These ideas, referred to colloquially as a "Baloney Detection Kit," "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," a kit of tools for skeptical thinking, or a critical thinking kit, are reproduced here, and feature Sagan's suggestions on how to use the kit's tools whenever new ideas are offered for consideration, to find out if each new idea can survive examination.
According to Buzz Aldrin, astronaut and National Space Society chairman, he was "beyond a doubt the most outstanding contributor to human inspiration and of thoughts of and beyond the Earth." Sagan revealed his ideas on critical thinking in one of his books, sub-titled Science as a Candle in the Dark. SITE SUMMARY: Carl Sagan, a noted astronomer who was Cornell University's David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of Cornell's Laboratory for Planetary Studies, was known for making the space sciences understandable to, and interesting for, average people, especially via television and in books. Excerpts from Science as a Candle in the Dark
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