Author Nate Pedersen talks about his newest book Pseudoscience.
This event is located at E. Shaver Starland (The Gingerbread house) at 1921 Bull St.
Free tickets are available as well as paid for tickets that include a signed copy of the book. Only books bought through E. Shaver or at the event will be signed. Beverages will be available for purchase at the bar located in the Gingerbread house.
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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them by Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen
From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.
From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience 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 can be explained scientifically.
Pseudoscience is a wild mix of history, pop culture, and good old fashioned science–that not just entertains, but sheds a little light on why we all love to believe in things we know aren't true.
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Nate Pedersen is an award-winning writer and historian in Savannah, Georgia. He is the co-author of QUACKERY: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Workman, 2017), PATIENT ZERO: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases (Workman, 2021), and PSEUDOSCIENCE: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Explain Everything (Workman, 2025). All three books were co-written with Lydia Kang, MD. Their books have been published in 12 languages around the world.