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Joel Achenbach

Joel Achenbach

Joel Achenbach is a staff writer for the Washington Post and the author of, among several books, Captured By Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe.

Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable

No one will ever match his talent as the “gatekeeper of scientific credibility”