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

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A visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science from the authors of Quackery.

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? Rumpolo...