Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience
In reply to the discussion: What's the craziest fucking woo you've ever heard? [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)I think you're missing the point.
Are you proposing any other "woo theories" that exceed these for global popularity or impact? Are you going to make a permanent issue of my word choices, or can you think of one? (Where do you get your numbers? Did you poll every last Chinese citizen? And what does it matter?)
These ideologies are in power. Many of those who reject them usually feel it necessary not to challenge them directly. Presumably you're writing from the country known as the world's most powerful, where majorities of the people and both ruling parties (one body and soul, the other in practice) are in the grip of these ideologies. Almost all US politicians at least pay lip service to One-God-Theory and the wonders of a "free market" (which has never and can never exist).
Meanwhile, self-styled skeptics, who often fall for one of these two in particular (the invisible hand), congratulate themselves for knocking usually harmless tales about Bigfoot or the totally inconsequential belief in "Time Cube" (held by a handful of people, if that, most of them as a joke).