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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

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Summary

From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. 

From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science--it's a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of aliens. Did you know, for example, that you can tell a person's future by touching their butt? Rumpology. It's a thing, but not really. Or that Stanley Kubrick made a fake moon landing film for the US government? Except he didn't. Or that spontaneous human combustion is real? It ain't, but it can be explained scientifically.

Pseudoscience is a wild mix of history, pop culture, and good old fashioned science-that not just entertains, but sheds a little light on why we all love to believe in things we know aren't true.

Lydia Kang,Nate Pedersen
Publisher: Workman Publishing
February 01 2025
EAN: 9781523524259
ISBN: 1523524251