About

The Candle Archive is a personal site for long-form essays on science, written by Rami Husein.

The name is a reference to Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995). The book's central image — science as a candle held up against the dark of unreason — captures what this archive is for.

What this site is​

• A place to publish careful, source-led essays on scientific topics.
• A place to examine pseudoscientific claims on their own terms, and to show where and why they fail.
• A public notebook, written in the open, with corrections welcome.

What this site is not​

• A breaking-news feed. Essays are written slowly.
• A comprehensive encyclopedia. Coverage is idiosyncratic, reflecting what the author finds interesting or worth clarifying.
• A debate platform. Disagreement is welcome in the form of evidence and argument; polemic is not.

Corrections​

Significant corrections are noted in the essay itself as dated addenda.

Colophon​

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