Talk:Cosmos (Sagan book)

message: Why is this page, which I thought would be about the book, mostly a long critique of Sagan's attitude to atom bombs (which I don't know enough about to comment on). This seems to drastically unbalance the page. 62.31.128.13
This page was only created a day ago. I thought that analysis would make an interesting addition to the "Cosmos" page but there was no page on the book yet so I created one and posted what I had. I'm actually working on a summary of the rest of the book right now because you're right, it is very unbalanced.  -snpoj
A comment: both favorable and critical discussions of the book can be summarized in several sentences.  This is an encyclopaedic article about the book and should mention its biases one way or another but I don't think they need this much detail.  It could warrant a separate article though (e.g. "Bias in Sagan's Cosmos") Miranche 09:54, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the big critique of Sagan's attitude to atom bombs? 

message: They should be removed from this article, and I even consider that such kind of texts don't belong to Wikipedia at all. snpoj should write them somewhere else, outside of Wikipedia. Reason: they are fully unscientific. Specifically:
"Criticism of Scientific Hubris" -- the writer of the section wants to tell two things "we should even doubt that evolution existed" ('Creationism' anyone?) and "science is bad because everything is a theory and can't be proved 100%" -- here he tries to use the logic of 'Zeno's paradox' to discredit the scientific method. Makes you wonder why we need encyclopeadias then at all.
"Criticism and Analysis of 'Cosmos' in relation to Nuclear Weapons and War" is even sillier: here the writer tell us only "Sagan writes that nuclear weapons are bad, and that the society can destroy himself, but he is wrong since we haven't destroyed ourselves until now, QED". So let's remove both parts. - 80.109.93.28 17:06, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I vote ''against'' sections "Criticism of Scientific Hubris" and "Criticism and Analysis of 'Cosmos' in relation to Nuclear Weapons and War" 

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message: I see Neil deGrasse Tyson with a team had created Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which I think needs being mentioned here. Perhaps that is not this book's only legacy, and if so, a section for that should be created with this link in a suitable sentence as initial content, and more to be added when found. --Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 17:35, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy or similar section could be welcome