A Major Reason to Be Concerned About the Dangers of Pseudoscience

question 104

Multiple Choice

A major reason to be concerned about the dangers of pseudoscience is that

• A)harm rarely results from pseudoscientific beliefs or treatments.
• B)a lack of scientific thinking may lead to poor decisions that affect many areas of our lives.
• C)people are often quite accurate and unbiased in their day-to-day decision making.
• D)quackery and pseudoscience are especially easy to detect without exposure to critical thinking or skepticism.

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Definitions:

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