TY - BOOK AU - Carl Sagan TI - The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark SN - 9780345409461 U1 - 501 SAG-D .PS PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books KW - Science -- Methodology -- Popular works. Science -- Study and teaching -- Popular works. Literacy -- Popular works. N1 - The most precious thing -- Science and hope -- The man in the moon and the face on Mars -- Aliens -- Spoofing and secrecy -- Hallucinations -- The demon-haunted world -- On the distinction between true and false visions -- Therapy -- The dragon in my garage -- The city of grief -- The fine art of baloney detection -- Obsessed with reality -- Antiscience -- Newton's sleep -- When scientists know sin -- The marriage of skepticism and wonder -- The wind makes dust -- No such thing as a dumb question -- House on fire -- The path to freedom -- Significance junkies -- Maxwell and the nerds -- Science and witchcraft -- Real patriots ask questions N2 - In this engrossing, thought-provoking and entertaining book, the author convincingly shows how alien abduction stories and other paranormal tales are simply the modern version of fairies and other ancient demons that exist only in the human mind ER -