Kang L Pseudoscience An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas 2024
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Name: Kang L Pseudoscience An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas 2024
Format: epub
Size: 64.68 MB
Book:
Title: Pseudoscience
Author: Lydia Kang
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: Humor, History, Social Sciences, Reference, Science & Technology, History – Reference & Study, Media & Communications, General Reference, Science – General & Miscellaneous, Historical Reference, Journalism, Newspapers & Periodicals Reference, History – Humor, History Periodicals – Reference, Science->General and miscellaneous
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781523524273
Total pages: 320
Description:
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…
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