An important point from the authors' discussion on why people need to care about the dangers of pseudoscience is that
A) harm rarely results from pseudoscientific beliefs or treatments.
B) a lack of critical thinking may lead to a variety of negative outcomes on many different levels of society.
C) people are often quite accurate and unbiased in their day-to-day decision making.
D) quackery and pseudoscience are especially easy to detect without exposure to critical thinking or skepticism.
Answer: B
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a) extroversion
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d) neuroticism
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