Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them by Kang, Lydia

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

A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science....
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Author: Lydia Kang
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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them by Kang, Lydia

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

$56.63

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

$56.63
Author: Lydia Kang
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.

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.

From the authors of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, Pseudoscience is a wild mix of history, pop culture, and good old fashioned science--one that not just entertains, but sheds a little light on why we all love to believe in a few things we know aren't true.

Author: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 02/18/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Size: 8.25h x 6.25w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9781523524259

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