Topic: Carl Sagan

2 chapters across the catalog

Cricket Flour
Episode 725 27:21 - 33:18

725: Cricket Flour

Carl Sagan's 1996 Warning on Science and Skepticism

A 1996 interview features Carl Sagan warning about a society based on technology that no one understands. Sagan emphasized that science is a way of skeptically interrogating authority and that an uneducated public is vulnerable to political or religious charlatans. Neil deGrasse Tyson's modern interpretation of these words is contrasted with Sagan's original intent.

Lonely Crazies
Episode 508 1:45:15 - 1:49:10

508: Lonely Crazies

Michael Crichton, State of Fear and Climate Hoax

Michael Crichton's book *State of Fear* is praised for its deconstruction of the global warming narrative using documented data and footnotes. The hosts discuss Crichton's critique of scientific alarmism, specifically referencing Carl Sagan's failed 1991 prediction that the Kuwaiti oil fires would cause a "nuclear winter." They suggest Crichton was marginalized by the scientific community for exposing the "climate change hoax."