Although it‘s hard for me to see a more profound cosmic connection than the astonishing findings of modern nuclear astrophysics: except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up – the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains – were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff.

Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled

#Pseudoscience is easier to contrive than #science, because distracting confrontations with reality – where we cannot control the outcome of the comparison – are more readily avoided. The standards of argument, what passes for #evidence, are much more relaxed. In part for these same reasons, it is much easier to present pseudoscience to the general #public than science. But this isn‘t enough to explain its popularity.