Yeah, the entirety of "The Demon-Haunted World", "Billions and Billions", and "Dragons of Eden", frankly.
He warns about scientists increasingly being in the pay of special interests, whether those are private or governmental.
He warns about increasing scientific incompetency, and the decreasing attention span of the Western human.
In one, he even talks about how tribal names tend to translate out simply to "The People", which indicates that other tribes were just "animals who can talk or trade".
And instead of just parading around saying "UAP aren't real" like a little nigerian prince, Sagan would have been at the forefront right next to Grusch, demanding answers to whistleblower claims, actively looking for that "extra-ordinary evidence" for extraordinary claims.
I used to watch Jon Stewart and honestly liked his stuff, because he would even go after democrats over stupid shit.
If you were vaguely Right Wing at the time it was glaringly obvious even then what was going on. Black Science Man was just "suddenly" everywhere talking about science and being worshiped, just like Bill Nye, but none of them ever said anything but The Current Narrative and generic slop.
Which made it even more glaringly obvious how people like Jon Stewart were operating. They'd bring on obvious plants reading easy scripts and getting softball questions for their Left friends to help those narratives, berate and attacking the Lefties who were making them look bad (thereby giving the illusion of being "fair" and "going after both sides"), while treating Right-wingers with the least faith possible.
They only seem subtle now because the current crop has absolutely zero subtly at all. It just seems so because for most people here, they were part of the "vaguely Left" crowd at the time so they weren't focusing that critical eye on these people until they finally got shaken awake by a major event like GG or Trump.
Neil was an obviously manufactured tool for the creation of false consensus in pop science.
Diversity hire.
Sagan WARNED about shit like this just before he died.
The irony is, Black Science Man claims Sagan was his mentor. Any spicy Sagan quotes?
Yeah, the entirety of "The Demon-Haunted World", "Billions and Billions", and "Dragons of Eden", frankly.
He warns about scientists increasingly being in the pay of special interests, whether those are private or governmental.
He warns about increasing scientific incompetency, and the decreasing attention span of the Western human.
In one, he even talks about how tribal names tend to translate out simply to "The People", which indicates that other tribes were just "animals who can talk or trade".
And instead of just parading around saying "UAP aren't real" like a little nigerian prince, Sagan would have been at the forefront right next to Grusch, demanding answers to whistleblower claims, actively looking for that "extra-ordinary evidence" for extraordinary claims.
If you were vaguely Right Wing at the time it was glaringly obvious even then what was going on. Black Science Man was just "suddenly" everywhere talking about science and being worshiped, just like Bill Nye, but none of them ever said anything but The Current Narrative and generic slop.
Which made it even more glaringly obvious how people like Jon Stewart were operating. They'd bring on obvious plants reading easy scripts and getting softball questions for their Left friends to help those narratives, berate and attacking the Lefties who were making them look bad (thereby giving the illusion of being "fair" and "going after both sides"), while treating Right-wingers with the least faith possible.
They only seem subtle now because the current crop has absolutely zero subtly at all. It just seems so because for most people here, they were part of the "vaguely Left" crowd at the time so they weren't focusing that critical eye on these people until they finally got shaken awake by a major event like GG or Trump.
I fucking hate "The Science"
"The Science™" - it's far more a commercial concern than an epistemological one.
"The Science" may be a religious institution more than a commercial one.
That, and Pluto is a fuckin planet. That silly sack of shit can go fuck right off for that alone, nevermind the rest of his horseshit.