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Pardon My Take
Astrophysicist Brian Cox recommended Carl Sagan's book as a brilliant work that remains highly relevant today. He highlighted Sagan's argument that modern society is built on scientific pillars and warned that a lack of scientific understanding poses a direct threat to the health of democracy.
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The book was highly praised as brilliant, pointing out that modern societies are based on science, and distrusting this foundational knowledge is a problem for democracy itself.
And he wrote a book called The Demon Haunted World, which is a brilliant book, which is back in the 80s, he wrote it, early 90s, before a lot of this sort of tension. But he pointed out that we live in societies, whether we like it or not, that are based on science. It's one of the pillars of our society.