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It is an axiom in the publishing business, however, that pseudoscience will always sell more books than the real science that debunks it.

— Robert L. Park Voodoo Science (2000)

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Every step taken by science claims territory once occupied by the supernatural.

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The integrity of science is anchored in the willingness of scientists to test their ideas and results in direct confrontation with their scientific peers.

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It is not so much knowledge of science that the public needs as a scientific worldview—an understanding that we live in an orderly universe, governed by physical laws that cannot be circumvented.

Voodoo Science (2000)

They are betting against the laws of thermodynamics. No one has ever won that wager.

Voodoo Science (2000)

Consciously or unconsciously, the strategy of true believers is to isolate themselves from skeptics.

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