{"id":25469,"date":"2025-07-30T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=25469"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:55:17","slug":"sagan-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/07\/sagan-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Sagan Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not about the extraordinary cyclist Peter Sagan but about the astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extraordinary_claims_require_extraordinary_evidence\">Carl Sagan<\/a> who postulated\u00a0 in his 1979 book\u00a0 &#8220;Broca&#8217;s brain&#8221; that &#8220;extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A major part of the book is devoted to debunking &#8220;paradoxers&#8221; who either live at the edge of science or are outright\u00a0charlatans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 27.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not about the extraordinary cyclist Peter Sagan but about the astronomer Carl Sagan who postulated\u00a0 in his 1979 book\u00a0 &#8220;Broca&#8217;s brain&#8221; that &#8220;extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence&#8221; A major part of the book is devoted to debunking &#8220;paradoxers&#8221; who either live at the edge of science or are outright\u00a0charlatans. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/07\/sagan-standard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sagan Standard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[218,3740],"class_list":["post-25469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-science","tag-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25470,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions\/25470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}