Description
From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by 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.
Author: Lydia Kang
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2/18/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48 lbs
Size: 8.26″ H x 6.14″ L x 1.04″ W
ISBN: 9781523524259
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