Pseudoscience

A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas,phenomenaand 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 hucksterismPseudoscience 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 Footastrologyand the existence of aliens. Did you knowfor examplethat you can tell a person’s future by touching their butt? Rumpology. It’s a thingbut 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’tbut it can be explained scientifically. From the authors of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure EverythingPseudoscience is a wild mix of historypop cultureand good old fashioned science–one that not just entertainsbut sheds a little light on why we all love to believe in a few things we know aren’t true.