ALT Excerpt from a draft of Carl Sagan's book, "A Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" addressing the topic of pseudoscience. "These are all instances of pseudoscience. The contentions purport to use the methods and findings of science, while in fact they are faithless to its nature-- often because they are based on insufficient evidence, or because they ignore clues that point the other way."
ALT A full disk image of Earth from space. The planet is mostly blue water, covered with swirls of white clouds. The satellite is centered on North America, which is a brown and green landmass. South America is in the 4 o'clock position. A dark yellowish brown shadow dominates the center of the image, casting much of Mexico and the southern and eastern U.S. a much darker brown. This is the Moon's shadow from the eclipse.
ALT A quote from Lisa Lange, a senior vice-president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: “T.N.R. isn’t ‘better than nothing’—it’s worse than nothing. It doesn’t reduce the number of homeless cats, but it does normalize the idea that cats should be outdoors, and it turns a blind eye to their suffering. We see it every day in the diseased faces and broken bodies of feral cats. There is a fate worse than death.”
ALT Screenshot of a Facebook post. It reads: “For those of you who are newer to our area, We are going into the coyote mating season. January and February they are extemely agressive and active. Coyotes will be on the prowl looking for food. They have been known to scale a 12ft fence with ease. Here recently two hunters found a coyote den with over 50 dog and cat collars. There's no telling how many they killed that didn't have a collar on. A coyote can literally wait in the shadows you take your little dog out for potty break and turn your head and that is how long it can take for you to lose your precious fur baby. They have adapted to being the best skilled hunters and they go into peoples backyards all the time and on front porches. All of these pictures that I am posting are coyotes with beloved cats and dogs in their mouths. This is disturbing. Protect your dogs and cats when outside especially when going out at night.”surveillance camera shots of coyotes with domestic animal prey.
