When I come across a pseudoscience I haven’t seen before, I usually go to Google first to check its position with regard to reality.
Then I go to its RationalWiki article for entertainment. This is essential if I don’t want to spend the rest of the day fuming at how many people “actually believe in that stuff”.
That is a good alternative interpretation. But I don’t think most of its readers treat it that way.
When I come across a pseudoscience I haven’t seen before, I usually go to Google first to check its position with regard to reality.
Then I go to its RationalWiki article for entertainment. This is essential if I don’t want to spend the rest of the day fuming at how many people “actually believe in that stuff”.
I do. In certain places I couldn’t pretend to believe they’re trying to be serious even if I tried.