Father Dan's Six Mistakes In Thinking

Via Father Dan comes this list of mistakes in thinking identified by Thomas Kida that can lead to the acceptance of false ideas:

1: We prefer stories to statistics.
2: We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas.
3: We rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in shaping events.
4: We sometimes misperceive the world around us.
5: We tend to oversimplify our thinking.
6: Our memories are often inaccurate.

Well, that seems to cover just about all "proven" altie therapies.