Recent astronomical data have again demonstrated that few scientists have simultaneously achieved such widespread acclaim while consistently being wrong as the late Carl Sagan.

In the area of popular science, I don’t know much that he wrote or said that was correct.

I wonder if the same is true for Dawkins?

Physicist David Heddle's full post is here, including a discussion of Sagan's now discredited assumption that Earth is situated in an unremarkable backwater of the Milky Way.