[Vision2020] Baloney Detection Kit

[Ted Moffett]

No, I have not read Sagan's (actually co-authored with Ann Druyan)
book "Demon Haunted World" but I probably should, along with a
gazillion other books...

Below read info on Ann Druyan, who was a producer on the film
"Contact," with Jodie Foster, which was based on a book by Sagan:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10537.Ann_Druyan

Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an American author and media
producer known for her involvement in many projects aiming to
popularize and explain science. She is probably best-known as the last
wife of Carl Sagan, and co-author of the Cosmos series and book, along
with Sagan and Steven Soter.

In her writings, Druyan has stressed the idea that people can have a
sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without
introducing the concept of a god.

Druyan wrote the books Comet and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, as
well as sections of The Demon-Haunted World, with her late husband
Carl Sagan. In addition, she wrote an introduction to The Cosmic
Connection and the epilogue to Billions and Billions, both by Saga...

In the areas of film and television, she was one of the writers for
the television series Cosmos, and a producer of the film Contact. Most
recently, she is the CEO and a co-founder of Cosmos Studios. In 2007
she was said to be working on an IMAX film on global warming as well
as a sequel to Cosmos.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana Laws NORML for over 10 years, and is also
the current president of the NORML Foundation Board of Directors.

Other projects that she has been involved in include the selection of
the music on the Voyager Golden Record mounted on the Voyager 1 and
Voyager 2 space probes, and the Cosmos 1 spacecraft, which intended to
demonstrate solar sail propulsion. The Cosmos 1 used a former Soviet
submarine missile as a launch vehicle (in keeping with the "swords
into plowshares" philosophy) but due to a malfunction in separation,
the Cosmos 1 never reached stable orbit.

In January 2007, she was a juror at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in
the jury responsible for selecting the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan
Prize, given to films that focus on science and technology.

She attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium in November 2006.
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On 3/9/11, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> Ted
> Thanks for posting the Baloney Detection kit. I am with you is respect for
> Carl Sagan, but not for Noam Chomsley. Have you read Sagan's A Demon Haunted
> World?
> Roger
>
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