Posted by P Suster on December 30, 1996 at 20:29:55:
In Reply to: Carl Sagan posted by Amanda on December 30, 1996 at 18:30:38:
: When I subscribed to "Skeptic" magazine over the holidays - the woman who took the call mentioned that they were working on a tribute issue on Carl Sagan much like their first issue on Asimov. It will no doubt be a beauty so I thought I'd share the info. He was a great man and I was looking at other great minds that have died such as Asimov and Russell and a host of others and I'm wondering if anyone has any examples of ones that are alive today - fighting to get science out to the people and perhaps minimizing the effects of religion and mysticism in the process? One I can think of is Stephen J. Gould.
Martin Gardner, of course, but he is one of the elder statesmen.
The only prominent science popularizers of the younger generation is Stephen Gould
and on a different level, Bill Nye, "the science guy".
It does sound like the champions are getting a little thin, more of us need to step into the arena.
P Suster