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ISBN
9781523524259

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Publisher
Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1523524251
ISBN-13
9781523524259
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16068267985

Product Key Features

Book Title
Pseudoscience : an Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Conspiracy Theories, Topic / History, Reference, General
Genre
Social Science, Science, Humor, History
Author
Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Trade
LCCN
2024-034848
Reviews
"A fizzy survey of outlandish theories from throughout history .... Kang and Pedersen bring dry humor to the proceedings , as when they close out their discussion of "rumpologists" who purport to divine a person's future from the shape of their rear end with the quip: "No word yet on how a surgical Brazilian butt lift might alter your fate." Though the authors debunk bigfoot, crop circles, and ghosts, the most intriguing chapters discuss more baroque theories, such as 20th-century Austrian engineer Hanns Hörbiger's contention, derived exclusively from dreams, that much of the universe was created after a "waterlogged star" crashed into the sun and sprayed ice blocks deep into space, where they gave rise to countless solar systems. A wry takedown of bogus beliefs, this entertains." -- Publishers Weekly
Table Of Content
Introduction Pure Nonscience Flat Earth Spontaneous Human Combustion Gasoline Pills Perpetual Motion Machines World Ice Theory Body Divination Phrenology Aliens! Ghosts! Bigfoot! Atlantis! UFOolgy Bermuda Triangle Crop Circles Ghosts and Ghost Hunting Cryptozoology 2012 Phenomenon Wishful Thinking Cryonics Astrology Ley Lines Personality Psychology Auguries Polygraph The Superstitions Hall of Fame Grifters, Nihilism, and Denialism Levitation Fake Moon Landings Climate Change Denial Lawsonomy Dowsing Sources Index Acknowledgments Photo Credits
Synopsis
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., More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle originated the scientific method. And it's been an uphill battle ever since. Instead of sticking to what the evidence proves, we love to believe in things like the Bermuda Triangle, personality tests, crop circles, Bigfoot, spontaneous human combustion, and UFOs, Covering everything from the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, hucksterism to conspiracy theories, Pseudoscience is an entertaining, compulsively readable, and visually rich look at the history of the bizarre and out all-too-human weakness to fall for things scientifically suspect. But also, let's be honest-the earth does seem kind of flat.
LC Classification Number
Q172.5.P77K36 2025

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