I did mention “Merchants of Doubt” and “Manufacturing Consent” in an earlier sequence, but Sagan would’ve been a fine addition — thanks for sharing that passage

P.S. If you don't mind my asking, do you have any sense of how that old screenshot might have ended up on your radar?

Thanks so much for posting the link here — I was trying to figure out why an essay from July was getting so much traffic, as I didn't have an account here until about 20 minutes ago

Hello Cameron, that would be me. It's the last movement of an essay from July called "The Baby State" substack.com/@johnhydrisk...