TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kang,Lydia
AU  - Pedersen,Nate
TI  - Pseudoscience: an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them 
SN  - 9781523524259 (hardcover)
AV  - Q 172.5 K16p 2025
U1  - 001.9/6 23/eng/20241212
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Workman Publishing
KW  - Pseudoscience
KW  - Pseudociencia
KW  - Quacks and quackery
KW  - Charlataneria
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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
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