5/26/2023 0 Comments The demon haunted world book buy![]() ![]() The “case” can never be “scientific” in the sense that Lewontin and Sagan imply. But he falls into a shopworn and destructive dichotomy when he says, “The case for the scientific method should itself be ‘scientific’ and not merely rhetorical” (my italics). He is right in claiming that Sagan gives no clue about how scientific method might prove its own claims to superiority. It is not enough, however, to say that Sagan “has opened the wrong envelope.” Lewontin himself has not quite opened the right one. ![]() Anyone who believes Sagan’s claims about the ultimate hopes for “scientific method” should study Lewontin’s underminings carefully. Richard Lewontin’s review of Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World raises many of the right questions about the over-confident rhetoric of many scientists. ![]()
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