From the Skeptical Literature—1987: One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge—even to ourselves—that we’ve been so credulous. — Carl Sagan. The Fine Art of Baloney Detection. Parade magazine, February 1, 1987. p. 11 —This widely-read magazine piece developed some of the central arguments and language that Sagan later incorporated into his now-classic 1996 book, The Demon-Haunted World: skeptic/productlink/b045PB
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