Carl Sagan Was A Pothead - So why was he such a dick on the UFO question?

he wasn't

Carl Sagan was an avid user of marijuana, although he never admitted this publicly during his life. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he wrote an essay concerning cannabis smoking in the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered, whose editor was Lester Grinspoon.

In his essay, Sagan commented that marijuana encouraged some of his works and enhanced experiences. After Sagan's death, Grinspoon disclosed this to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. When the biography, entitled Carl Sagan: A Life, was published in 1999, the marijuana exposure stirred some media attention.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

[link to cannabisculture.com]

Sagan was hired by NASA to debunk Velikovsky.
He was nothing more than a mouthpiece for TPTB.

he was a dick cause he hated the garbage that was attached to the true science about locating intelligent life, he hated that it was being turned into a mockery

and he is right most ufo sightings are garbage and they only distort the truth

Ummm, before his death, Carl Sagan agreed that we have been visited over 5000 times by an other planetary race and that UFO's are very likely...

Of course you can provide evidence of that, right?

Did he really write a book titled "Billions and Billions"

lol
The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
-- Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions p. 215

Sagan put it how it should be put. BE SKEPTICAL . He NEVER denied that there was other EBEs.

Yes, he was a proponent of alien civilizations scattered throughout the universe, but he saw no evidence that they had ever been here and was very critical of kook thinking.

hey, just because you smoke the weed doesn't automatically make you a saint

Lol, it was his evil twin that said it.

Conspiracy!

Hence he was not a "dick."

True beleivers are just idiots.

what's one got to do with the other? I can smoke an entire Jamaican harvest and I still don't believe in aliens. and I won't until one gets close enough that I can smack it upside its head for bad manners. now I've seen some weird shit flyin' that could be considered ufo's in the literal sense in that they were flyin' and I couldn't identify 'em.

I'm delighted to tell about contemporary scientific thinking along these lines, but let me begin by saying that I do not think the evidence is at all persuasive, that UFO's are of intelligent extraterrestrial origin, nor do I think the evidence is convincing that no UFO's are of intelligent extraterrestrial origin. -- Carl Sagan [link to ncas.sawco.com]

his quote on that is...."extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

Carl Sagan was one of the smartest people in the 20th century.