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Maybe Joe Nickell is a better representative of the skeptic community, then?
Maybe we could agree that belief in too many of these probably means you're crazy? ;)
I see it lists memetics, hypnosis and subliminal perception as pseudoscience. I'd put >50% on each of these being a real phenomenon.
I think for areas like these we should distinguish between believing a popular myth (eg. Hypnotized assassins, James Vicary's "Eat Popcorn") versus believing the phenomenon exists at all.
Well, that's why I added the qualifier "too many".