COMMENT:A collection of Sagan's essays written for, or talks delivered to, general audiences. The 24 items are grouped under five headings, which are: 1. Science and Human Concern; 2. The Paradoxers; 3. Our Neighborhood in Space; 4. The Future; 5. Ultimate Questions. Section 2 contains a fairly lengthy essay criticizing Velikovsky, which was delivered at the annual meeting of the AAAS in 1974 (a revised version appears in <a href="/bib/363"><cite>Scientists Confront Velikovsky</cite></a>). A number of other pseudoscientific ideas are also criticized in this section. Section 5 deals with religion.
DATE:19980609
KEYWORDS:pseudoscience science velikovsky
MISC:426p.
PUBLISHER:Hodder & Stoughton
TITLE:Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
