In the beginning of the text, the topic of common sense will really intrigue anyone who reads it. One in particular is the idea that, "two glasses of wine a day is good for your heart." With this typical "common sense," my mother would always remind me why she is drinking wine in the first place. So why do people trust these medical findings if very few of them are legitimate? I think people will believe these pseudosciences because it makes them more comfortable, and its from years and years of other "common sense" they have grown up with. On the very first page, there was a set of 10 questions of popular psychology beliefs that I found some to be true and some to be false. Yet every single question was false. I was taught the knowledge in these questions ever since I grew up but no one told me otherwise. Instead of just believing what the latest science says, or what others think, people should look up and try to prove it themselves.
A great point you brought up! I agree that we all should be a little more careful before believing what is being said in the media. We should not always trust the sources as we should know by now correlation does not imply causation. In the case of the wine, there may have been some suggestive findings that one glass of wine per day is “good for the heart” but we may have also overlooked other factors that contributed to the result. A few of those influential factors may have included the person’s exercise regimen, their current state of health and others. I also think the reason why people are so quick to jump to a conclusion after hearing of these “scientific findings” is because they look at the media and news as credible and reliable resources of information. If the news says so, then it has to be true, right? However, that is not necessarily the case. We should take these statements as just suggestions with a grain of salt.