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

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

$38.50

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

$38.50
Author: Lydia Kang
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Lydia Kang,Nate Pedersen
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 02/18/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 8.26h x 6.14w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9781523524259


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/17/2025

About the Author
Lydia Kang, MD, is a practicing internal medicine physician and author of young adult fiction and adult fiction. Her YA novels include Control, Catalyst, and the upcoming The November Girl. Her adult fiction debut is entitled A Beautiful Poison. Her nonfiction has been published in JAMA, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

This author is represented by the Hachette Speakers Bureau.
Nate Pedersen is a librarian, historian, and freelance journalist with over 400 publications in print and online, including in the Guardian, the Believer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Art of Manliness.

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