Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This lesson explores pseudoscience, which pretends to be scientific but doesn’t adhere to science’s methodology. In this fun and engaging activity, students learn the characteristics of health pseudoscience—and the techniques used to sell it—by creating their own fake advertisements.

Lesson plan: thinkingispower.com/activity-how-to-sell-health-pseudoscience

Videos from this lesson plan:
Introduction: youtu.be/afJI034zhXQ
How to Sell Health Pseudoscience: youtu.be/tU8Hh_7B2Lo
Feline Follicle Fix: youtu.be/_UjqnLD3GFk
How to Recognize Pseudoscience: youtu.be/XrClYP6zEmU?si=icYKEKcGLln2kFX3

Based on the article "How to Sell Pseudoscience": skepticalinquirer.org/2022/08/how-to-sell-pseudoscience

For more visit ThinkingIsPower.com or www.MentalImmunityProject.org.

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