No Helping Some People

Some people swallow just about any conspiracy theory, monster myth or ridiculous bit of pseudoscience they come across. Back in the 90s I worked with an otherwise very nice chap who had caught the Erich von Däniken bug and believed every word he wrote. I failed to convince him von Däniken was an insult to serious academics, so I pressed this nice little debunking volume on him (first published in 1976) and urged him to read it:

A week or so later he handed it back unopened. (Another nice little debunker, incidentally, is this one, first published in 1984:

And no, I don't suppose it's on sale at the Loch Ness visitor centre.)