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In article <schumach.726281442@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
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>>It really shocked my that Sagan spent the amount of time he did in order
>>to rebuke Velikovsky.  As a matter of fact, I can't understand why
>>anybody would want to invest time and effort in dealing with such obvious
>>nonsense.
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>Because, unfortunately, there are many people with little or no familiarity
>with science for whom V.'s ideas are not obviously nonsense. To these
>people, silence on the part of scientists looks like embarrassed silence.
>Asimov makes this point again and again. These people cannot be ignored
>as long as they vote, sit on school boards, etc.

And we (scientists, that is) should be grateful to Sagan for his
efforts to explain science to the public.  He has plenty of other
things to do, new theories to pursue, etc.,but because he is afflicted
with the ability to explain -- as was Asimov, too -- he has made this
substantial sacrifice of time and energy. We are all indebted to him.
If only there a dozen more such spokesmen.

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