What's worst: god, horoscope or homeopathy?

[renatoab]

In your opinion what's the hardest to understand?
People who believe in god, people who believe in horoscope or people who believe in homeopathy?

For me, from worst to "less worse "
horoscope > homeopathy > god

[Alex K]

Same here, but only because ppl don't know what homeoparhy is...

[robvalue]

I'd say I'd agree with that. And yeah, if you explained exactly what homeopathy is to someone and they still believed it, the order might change.

[ignoramus]

I treat all scientifically unaccepted gibberish with equal contempt.

[Pyrrho]

I find them all equally understandable. The god thing is the most outrageous, but it has the strongest effort behind it (that is, people push it harder). They are all explained by human stupidity. That is why there are lists of informal (and formal) fallacies, because people are apt to reason poorly. If it were rare, there would not be such long, detailed lists of how reasoning can go wrong.

And if you really want to be depressed, you can read about how thinking can go wrong in ways that have not been catalogued:

http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html

[ignoramus]

oops, wrong thread!

[robvalue]

I put god as the least "dumb" mainly because it's so popular and people have a tendency to just go with the flow. If no one believed in god and suddenly someone came up with that idea out of nowhere, then it would be different.

[Aoi Magi]

I'd say horoscope is the most dumb, and homeopathy is the least, cause most people don't know or understand much about homeopathy, plus it does provide some psychological benefits and hence can be effective in some particular cases...

[Longhorn]

Horoscope < homeopathy < god
(In terms of dangerousness)

Out of the three, I prefer banananananas

[Dystopia]

Horoscope - Also because so many people believe in it.