it is stated "Evidence recently discovered in the British Museum indicates that St. Germain may have well been the long lost third son of Rákóczi born in Transylvania in 1694. If he died in Germany in 1784, he lived 90 years. The average life expectancy in the 18th century was 35 years. Fifty was a ripe old age. Ninety… was forever."

Even though it talks about life expectancy as being an average, the statement still presents ages past that average as being very rare, which is not exactly true. The life expectancy generally quoted is the at birth number, which is an average that includes all the babies that die before their first year of life as well as people that die from disease and war. Let's say youwith creationism and intelligent design, where the goal of discrediting evolution is merely a means to an end of discrediting secularism and promoting fundamentalist Christianity in its place.

Political [ edit ]

Pseudoscience can also thrive as the backdrop of political ideology.

Lysenkoism thrived in the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin as an "alternative" to evolution by natural selection, because it was put forward as part of the Communist ideology. Evolution and Mendelian genetics, meanwhile, were declared to be "bourgeois pseudoscience", and their supporters were sent to the gulags, which is exactly the way science's peer review process works.[15]

Likewise, Nazi Germany promoted Deutsche Physik because Nazi ideologues felt that relativity was too connected to Jews like Albert Einstein.

Pseudoscience is also often used to repress minorities or "undesirables", such as the "scientific