ince I haunt flat-earther and young creation groups on Facebook (debunking various silly opinions on occasion) I thought I’d enjoy Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World, And why not? Sagan wrote this in the mid-nineties and is a noted science advocate, using his background to guide and instruct those are less-inclined to it.

Yes, that’s what I wanted to do. My problem is that the book just didn’t agree with me. Perhaps it was the small print or the long routes he too on some of his points, perhaps readers and writers sometimes don’t click. Don’t know. But my rate of page-turning slowed, and the number of reading pauses in my day dropped until we came to a siege, me and this book. And that’s too bad. I had such intentions of liking it but just couldn’t manage it.

Still, the 2/3rds of it I did read were quite illuminating. Just as flat earth is so popular today, back then it was alien abductions (notice how you never hear of that anymore?). There have always been fakes, quacks and grifters and Carl traveled the gambit of them, often showing the length’s they’d go to put on a show. I really enjoyed the part about Percival Lowell and his claims of canals on mars, so supported and confirmed until, well, it wasn’t. Even in the scientific community, imagination can run away from the best of intentions.

So yes, a good read but just not for me. You may like to have a look, if only to see how “fads” come and go over time.

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