People still insist on things like holistic healing and things that have no real basis in evidence because they want it to be true—it’s as simple as that.That’s why James Randi is so good, because he knows what magicians know: if you do a card trick on someone, they will report that it was unbelievable, they describe the effect the magician wanted, and they miss out all the steps in between that seemed irrelevant because the magician made them irrelevant, so they didn’t notice them.
Stephen Fry