Lydia Kang, MD will sign "Pseudoscience"

Name: Lydia Kang, MD will sign "Pseudoscience"
Start: 2025-03-02T14:00:00-06:00
Location: The Bookworm Omaha

Schedule

Sun, 02 Mar, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Bookworm Omaha | Omaha, NE

On Sunday, March 2nd at 2:00 p.m., Lydia Kang, MD will discuss and sign her new book, "Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them." Co-authored with Nate Pedersen, "Pseudoscience" is a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.
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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.
Lydia Kang, MD, is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing physician and associate professor of Internal Medicine who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve medical accuracy in fiction. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Great Weather for Media. She believes in science and knocking on wood, and currently lives in Omaha with her husband and three children.