Book Club: 'The Demon-Haunted World'

​The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by the astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan.

​In this book, Sagan explains that science is not just a body of knowledge, but is a way of thinking. Sagan shows how scientific thinking is both imaginative and disciplined, bringing humans to an understanding of how the universe is, rather than how they wish to perceive it. He says that science works much better than any other system because it has a "built-in error-correcting machine".[2]: 27  Superstition and pseudoscience get in the way of the ability of many laypersons to appreciate the beauty and benefits of science.

​We will be located in the upper conference room of Minsky's in River Market. Tell the host you are here for the book club, or the conference room, and they will direct you.

​The room does get full waitstaff service, but has a max tab of 5. Be prepared to share a small tab with some people; bringing cash is easiest, Venmo is second-easiest.