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I got this book as a Christmas present from my mom. Then I ran into the same argument about pseudoscience that we have each year...
by surfsvammel 7y ago
I got this book as a Christmas present from my mom. Then I ran into the same argument about pseudoscience that we have each year...
- andrelaszlo 7y agoI gave it as a Christmas gift two years ago. Picked it up because of the funny title, saw that it was backed up by "science" according to the back cover and bought it... just apologized for the crappy gift to my brother in law. We were all confused by the colors. I had a little bit of all colors. My mom used to be red but is now more of the other colors... it really is pretty useless. I still enjoy taking "personality tests" but I try not fooling myself into thinking that MBTI, Strengths Finder, or DiSC says much more about myself than a horoscope would. If anything it might tell me a little bit about how I perceive myself, but that's not how it's sold. Thanks to VoF for their work!
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- porknubbins 7y agoIt was a little distressing to me to realize believing in pseudoscience (for anyone not a scientist, doctor, engineer etc) has very little negative affect, and lots of people seem to be much happier begin in a deluded state than rigorously searching for truth.
- surfsvammel 7y agoI don’t think that’s true though it sure seems like it. Pseudoscience is very seldom harmless. There is often someone making money off of someone else in the background, and in other cases it’s just plain health risks (for example Chiropractors killing a young girl by injecting her with turmeric or a naprapath taking a cancer patients money for snake oil for something that could be spent on proper healthcare). I can’t think of a single harmless pseudoscience.