Primary target is the widespread belief in alien abductions. While he touches on various sorts of pseudoscience and antiscience, including repressed memories of all sorts, creationism, belief in miracles and, to his credit, the claims of tobacco companies that cigarettes have not been shown to be harmful, Mr. The demons begin to stir.'' He could write for the tabs. The siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.'' He adds: ''The candle flame gutters. ''I worry that, especially as the millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, Sagan does a good job of excluding whimsy from his own book, although he has a weakness for the apocalyptic. Whimsy, make it difficult for the public to distinguish real perils from tabloid fiction and conceivably can impede our ability to take precautionary steps to mitigate the danger.'' Seldom before has a tabloid been charged Paper about a doomsday asteroid about to hit the Earth, he notes that there is a real long-term statistical threat of an asteroid impact with Earth: ''Stories like this suffuse the subject with apocalyptic exaggeration and In commenting on another story in the same He knows perfectly well that Weekly World News is a supermarket tabloid that revels in imaginative trashiness. In his new book, Carl Sagan, the scientist who once delighted millions with his television tales of stars and galaxies, casts a bilious eye on pseudoscience, antiscience and the big-headed alien who frequently graces the cover of Weekly World News. The Demon- Haunted World Science as a Candle in the Dark. The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
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