Pseudoscience
Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
Workman Publishing Company, $25
Have you ever taken a personality test seriously? Or maybe you’ve wondered if you could freeze yourself in liquid nitrogen to help revitalize your body postmortem?
Human tendencies to believe in such scientific myths are anything but uncommon. In their latest collaboration, Pseudoscience, internal medicine physician Lydia Kang and historian Nate Pedersen examine such myths from the past and present and scrutinize the evidence (or lack thereof) behind them. Through conversational and entertaining prose, the pair explores why people can be so eager to believe the unbelievable — and the very real dangers of doing so.
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