Psuedoscience to the rescue

Tue, Aug 5, 2003

Check out this article in wired.  With a wife that is a doctror, it always amuses me the capacity for people to think that the "system" is hiding the real cure from them.  It seems to me that people always value the remedies that they have to go outside the "system" for.  It is like that episode of Sienfeld where his dad would only take a gift if it were stolen. Is there a name for this phenomenon?

(I tried to find the specific episode for that Sienfeld reference but it turns out that there are better episode guides for Xena and Good Eats than I can for Sienfeld.  The web works in mysterious ways.)