“Enormous resources are invested in pseudoscience that could be better invested in improving the health and education of the public.”

—  Mordechai Ben-Ari

Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 5, “Pseudoscience: What Some People Do Isn’t Science” (p. 95)

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