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

By: Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

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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.