ABSTRACT

This chapter consists of many explanations and remedies for a wider range of natural happenings. A man who goes to the doctor with his pains is not more mature than he would be in bearing them when they were incurable. The chapter explains that an illiterate peasant may be more mature, less infantile in face of trouble, than an accomplished scientist. This chapter also explains that the confusion may appear when people speak of enlightenment. Horoscopes may mislead people sometimes. Perhaps a fortune teller sometimes does. The distribution of human beings has no more sense than the course of history does. Perhaps most of pseudo-science is based on ignorance especially ignorance of how scientists use the methods which they teach and describe. A physicist, who has become aware of some elementary relations between money and credit, may produce books and pamphlets advocating a special theory in economics.