{"id":3776,"date":"2024-07-29T03:37:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T03:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:51:47","slug":"worlds-of-their-own-a-brief-history-of-misguided-ideas-creationism-flat-earthism-energy-scams-and-the-velikovsky-affair-by-robert-j-schadewald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/worlds-of-their-own-a-brief-history-of-misguided-ideas-creationism-flat-earthism-energy-scams-and-the-velikovsky-affair-by-robert-j-schadewald\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas – Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair by Robert J. Schadewald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Worlds of Their Own”<\/strong> by Robert J. Schadewald critically examines various pseudoscientific ideas and beliefs that have persisted despite contradicting established scientific knowledge. The book covers topics such as creationism, flat-earth theories, energy scams, and the Velikovsky affair, providing historical context and analysis of why these beliefs endure. Schadewald explores the motivations behind these ideas and the impact they have on science and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  3. Motivations<\/strong>: Explores reasons behind the persistence of these beliefs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Impact on Society<\/strong>: Discusses the effects of pseudoscience on science and society.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Critical Examination<\/strong>: Analyzes why these ideas endure despite evidence to the contrary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    “Worlds of Their Own” by Robert J. Schadewald critically examines various pseudoscientific ideas and beliefs that have persisted despite contradicting established scientific knowledge. The book covers topics such as creationism, flat-earth theories, energy scams, and the Velikovsky affair, providing historical context and analysis of why these beliefs endure. Schadewald explores the motivations behind these ideas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[851,45],"tags":[163,58,700,699,59,703,612,55,701],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","category-philosophy","tag-creationism","tag-critical-thinking","tag-energy-scams","tag-flat-earth","tag-history","tag-misguided-ideas","tag-pseudoscience","tag-science","tag-velikovsky-affair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4305,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/4305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}