[Vision2020] Baloney Detection Kit

[lfalen]

Ann Drayan is also a contributing author for Skeptical Inquirer.
Roger
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From: Ted Moffett starbliss at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:16:44 -0800
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Baloney Detection Kit

> 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
> >
> >