Transcript WOP2003 - University of Wisconsin–Madison

Optical Illusions
Things that look one way
but are another
Pseudoscience
That which appears to be science
but is not
Low Probability of Being True
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UFOs and Extraterrestrials
Astrology
Perpetual Motion Machines
Extrasensory Perception
Divining Rods and Ouija Boards
Ghosts and Demons
Most “Alternative” Medicine
We live
an orderly
universe
thatcan
cannot
Theinmost
beautiful
thing we
be circumvented
magic
or miracles.
experience isbythe
mysterious.
—
L. Park
— Robert
Albert Einstein