[Turing_Machine]

Ogres and talking donkeys are also thoroughly discredited, but somehow the people who make Shrek still found a large audience and made tons-o-cash.

Fiction is stuff that didn't actually happen (and in many cases, couldn't actually happen).

[simonh]

Oh sure, I mentioned this before in another comment here. All the pseudo-psychology stuff may be bunk, but it can still be useful as a framework to hang your story on, even if only in the training wheels stage.

[guerrilla]

That's because they weren't trying to explain anything as if it were true, just telling a story. These posts are stating a bunch of psuedofacts as if they're true, more a form of misinformation than storytelling.