Ask the political scientists and you will be told that there is damning, hard evidence pointing incontrovertibly to the conclusion that millions are embarrassingly ill-informed and that they do not care that they are. There is enough evidence that one could almost conclude — though admittedly this is a stretch — that we are living in an Age of Ignorance.
Often derided by his lesser known contemporaries who toiled away in scientific obscurity, Carl Sagan was an all too rare breed of scientist – a marketer with the soul of a poet.
We could use a few more Carl Sagans to help us see things more clearly. Help us to develop and maintain perspective about this [...]
