# The Demon-Haunted World [[Carl Sagan]]'s 1995 defense of scientific skepticism against pseudoscience, superstition, and credulity — source of the [[Baloney Detection Kit]] and of the much-quoted "foreboding of an America" passage anticipating a manufacturing-less, media-saturated country sliding "almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." A founding text of the KB's critical-thinking toolkit.