re: "Why Do People Persist in Believing Things That Just Aren't True?"

Its amazing how a man (Sagan) who only has qualifications in astronomy can also function as Rex's religious icon. Not a Sagan fan because he, like a good snake oil salesman, laughably held himself out to be a preeminent scientist and remained largley unchallenged.... since those who don’t believe his dogmas have much less access to the media than he did. If he was called out with effective arguments, he made sure very few of his large, gullible audience woud ever hear about it.”