{"id":378,"date":"2009-04-24T07:53:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T11:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=378"},"modified":"2009-04-24T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T11:53:01","slug":"carl-sagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/carlsagan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-379\" title=\"carlsagan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/carlsagan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom Carl Sagan&#8217;s book\u00a0<em>Demon-Haunted World<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; there are three claims in the ESP field which, in my opinion, deserve\u00a0serious study: (1) that by thought alone humans can (barely) affect random\u00a0number generators in computers; (2) that people under mild sensory\u00a0deprivation can receive thoughts or images &#8220;projected&#8221; at them; and (3)\u00a0that young children sometimes report the details of a previous life, which\u00a0upon checking turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known\u00a0about in any way other than reincarnation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was pretty surprised when someone pointed me to this quote. \u00a0Sagan was a known critic and a founding member of the skeptical organization now known as CSI (<span>Committee for Skeptical Inquiry<\/span>). \u00a0He was still skeptical and the next paragraph in the book confirms that. \u00a0He&#8217;s pretty sure an explanation will be found that will explain it all away, but he is reluctantly conceding that in these three cases there is something there that still needs to be explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Carl Sagan&#8217;s book\u00a0Demon-Haunted World: &#8220;&#8230; there are three claims in the ESP field which, in my opinion, deserve\u00a0serious study: (1) that by thought alone &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-66","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}