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A comment on Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025). Parent comment

Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Cr... by dghf on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:33AM (#46989328)
What? Yes you can. I know my laptop is running a web browser because I can see it and interact with it. That's a physical measurement.
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Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Cr... by donkeybeer on Thursday February 12, 2026 @01:47PM (#46993194)
Won't be surprised if he's one of those that think "radiation" is some kind of harmful beams instead of also what the computer screen emits and we detect it to interact with it.
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