02757cam a2200469 i 4500 23950162 BJBSDDR 20260902135828.0 ta 241212s2025 nyua b 001 0 eng 2024034848 9781523524259 (hardcover) 1523524251 (hardcover) 9781523524273 ebook DLC eng rda DLC DLC DLC-MRC DLC eng pcc Q 172.5 K16p 2025 001.9/6 23/eng/20241212 Kang, Lydia, 1971- 49225 Pseudoscience : an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them / Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen. First edition. New York : Workman Publishing, 2025. x, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. text txt rdacontent http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt unmediated n rdamedia http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n volume nc rdacarrier http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/millus/ill Includes bibliographical references and index. "The Bermuda Triangle. Personality tests. Ghost hunting. Crop circles. Mayan Doomsday. What do all these have in common? None can quite live up the rigor of actual facts or science and yet they all attract passionate supporters anyway. Divided into broad sections covering the easily disproved to the wildly speculative to wishful thinking and of course 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"-- Provided by publisher. Pseudoscience Pseudociencia 50302 Quacks and quackery Charlataneria 50303 Pedersen, Nate 49227 http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/23950162 http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/instanceOf http://id.loc.gov/resources/works/23950162 DLC bibframe2marc v2.10 20250728 DLC https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe2marc/releases/tag/v2.10 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 127530 127530 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2026-06-26 0 Q 172.5 K16p 2025 00000199952 2026-06-26 15:59:00 1 2026-06-26 BK