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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time is a 1997 book by science writer Michael Shermer. The foreword was written by Stephen Jay Gould . Summary
Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 978-0-7167-3090-3. Thagard PR (1978). "Why astrology is a pseudoscience". PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. 1978 (1): 223– 234.
The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal is a 2024 non-fiction book by British psychologist Chris French, published by MIT Press. The book explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms behind paranormal beliefs and experiences, including ghost encounters, alien abductions , reincarnation , and near-death phenomena .
People may not know that the majority of other people also find these claims abnormal. By weird-checking problematic beliefs like these, Democrats are helping communicate more accurate perceptions ...
Mark Erickson, author of Science, culture and society: understanding science in the twenty-first century, noted that Gardner's book provided "a flavour of the immense optimism surrounding science in the 1950s" and that his choice of topics were "interesting", but also that his attacks on "osteopathy, chiropractice, and the Bates method for ...
Ohio Sen. JD Vance called climate change "weird science" during a question on the topic connected to Hurricane Helene during the vice presidential debate Tuesday night. Vance, former President ...
5. Dead Insects. Entomology enthusiasts often start by collecting dead insects and preserving them in special boxes or displays. According to collectors, it's also a way to advance science.
Christian Science is generally considered a Christian new religious movement; however, some have called it "pseudoscience" because its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, used "science" in its name, and because of its former stance against medical science. Also, "Eddy used the term Metaphysical science to distinguish her system both from materialistic ...