For example, in the United States, because of religious factors, there are more pseudosciences such as anti-evolutionary intelligent design theory than in China, and homeopathy is also original and widely popular in the United States, while only a few people in China have heard of it.
In China, influenced by traditional culture, there are many pseudosciences such as Chinese medicine geomantic omen under the banner of science.
By the way, because the whole world is more concerned about their own health, pseudoscience of health is prevalent in any country.
Pseudoscience can prevail for the following reasons:
1, the production cost of pseudoscience is extremely low. It's all made up, and there is no technical cost at all. As long as you dare to brag, some people dare to believe;
Pseudoscience has given people enough spiritual and humanistic care, and you can get all the achievements from pseudoscience that formal science can't. For example, cancer is treated by surgery and chemotherapy in modern medicine, which is extremely painful. My legs are weak when I think about it. At this time, I have something to tell you. Don't trust Western medicine. Western medicine treats people as machines, while X medicine is a whole. How to treat diseases when people are treated as a whole? How are you comfortable, painless and mentally comfortable? As for the effect ... The dead can't talk;
Everyone thinks he is smart, and his choice is not wrong. There are indeed many people with high IQ, high position and high education who firmly choose pseudoscience, but there are many reasons, including psychological aspects, social habits, ways of thinking, ... Of course, the most important thing is that everyone is smart in different fields. IQ is a resource. No one will abuse their IQ resources. If they are used in business, they will be big entrepreneurs, senior officials and scientists. However, they will not use their IQ resources in all fields. Therefore, experts in one field are often deceived by pseudoscience in another field, and even believe their IQ too much. On the contrary, it is easier to be cheated by scammers and count money for scammers. With the pursuit of these successful people with high IQ, ordinary people are more likely to follow suit. Zhang Wuben, Li Yi, Wang Lin and other swindlers are so successful.