Carl Sagan Punished for Popularizing Science
Yet instead, Sagan was punished by the scientific community for his public endeavors. The persecution began as early as the 1960s, when Harvard University denied him tenure. Nobel laureate Harold Urey, a chemist who had previously served as one of Sagan's mentors, helped quash his chances with a nasty letter objecting to Sagan's budding media and outreach efforts.
Notes:
His outreach efforts were used against Sagan's pursuit of tenure at Harvard.
Folksonomies: education communication popularization science outreach
Taxonomies:
/science (0.705782)
/law, govt and politics/legal issues/civil rights (0.504200)
/science/physics/space and astronomy (0.270435)
Keywords:
Carl Sagan Punished (0.941656 (negative:-0.572630)), laureate Harold Urey (0.832234 (positive:0.378410)), Popularizing Science (0.610979 (negative:-0.572630)), outreach efforts (0.581934 (negative:-0.572630)), Harvard University (0.558603 (negative:-0.211250)), public endeavors (0.558353 (negative:-0.598325)), nasty letter (0.552501 (negative:-0.560898)), scientific community (0.527163 (negative:-0.598325)), tenure (0.480121 (negative:-0.391940)), Sagan\ (0.379709 (negative:-0.566764)), chemist (0.372100 (neutral:0.000000)), mentors (0.370686 (neutral:0.000000)), pursuit (0.370571 (negative:-0.572630)), chances (0.370223 (negative:-0.560898)), persecution (0.362653 (neutral:0.000000)), 1960s (0.358135 (neutral:0.000000)), Nobel (0.355874 (positive:0.378410))
Entities:
Carl Sagan:Person (0.820743 (positive:0.378410)), Harvard University:Organization (0.554272 (neutral:0.000000)), Harold Urey:Person (0.474494 (negative:-0.391940)), Sagan\:Person (0.394710 (negative:-0.566764))
Concepts:
Pseudoscience (0.985947): dbpedia | freebase
Carl Sagan (0.745731): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc | yago
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our FutureSchemas
The Two Cultures
Memes concerning science and art, how they approach reality, how they are different, and how they are similar.
