{"product_id":"pseudoscience-by-nate-pedersen-9781523524259","title":"Pseudoscience","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bermuda Triangle. Personality tests. Ghost hunting. Crop circles. Mayan Doomsday. What do all these have in common? None can quite live up to the rigour of actual facts or science, and yet they all attract passionate supporters anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDivided into broad sections covering the easily disproved, the wildly speculative, wishful thinking, and of course, hucksterism, \u003ci\u003ePseudoscience\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e be explained scientifically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the authors of \u003ci\u003eQuackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePseudoscience\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild mix of history, pop culture, and good old-fashioned science—one that not only entertains but also sheds a little light on why we all love to believe in a few things we know aren't true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854790971628,"sku":"9781523524259","price":61.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781523524259.jpg?v=1759254997","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/pseudoscience-by-nate-pedersen-9781523524259","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}