What’s a pseudoscience that people still commonly believe is real? – 17 theories that don’t pass the smell test
10.
‘Personality tests. Specifically Myers Briggs. The amount of smart people I encounter who think it’s real never ceases to amaze me.
Cue folks chiming in here that it’s actually scientific in 3…2….’
-mayormcskeeze
11.
‘I’ve been told by alcoholics that drinking liquor stops you from getting diseases like COVID.’
-cobalt_phantom
12.
‘That a wolf pack has an alpha male.’
-LJonReddit
13.
‘Astrology, crystals, tarot, and a lot of other mysticism are still widely practiced and believed. Many of them are rather formalized and follow complex, arcane, rules. Ancient astrologers were capable of remarkable astronomical observations, and which helped seed the formation of modern Astronomy. However, it turns out that attention to detail and rigor are not enough to make something correct – hence the split between the scientific and pseudo-scientific versions of the discipline.’
-Hopeful_Ad_7719
14.
‘Dowsing rods. I’m a geophysicist and the amount of times I have had to explain to actual earth scientists that dowsing rods are downright pseudoscience is insane to me.
I’ve had people swear up and down that they work, and then they describe that they used them and tried multiple times till they “worked” and they found water. I had to tell them that all they did was dig random holes and finally hit something, the dowsing rods didn’t do anything in the process but make you look like an idiot.’
-HUGOSTIGLETS
15.
‘I know a lot of people praise eastern medicine, but I think it’s BS. I remember that story of that influencer who thought she could beat cancer with juices and coffee enemas. Well guess what, she died of cancer.’
-Word2DWise
16.
‘Body language experts.
Also I don’t know if that counts since actual psychology is of course a real science, but there’s a lot of pop psychology going around that is based on approximately nothing.’
-rider-hider
17.
‘”Manifestation.” Babe, that’s not the universe aligning. That’s just you ignoring red flags while journaling in cursive.’
-DreamyyBabe1