Superstition has a bad name. When Skinner's pigeons were subjected to a purely random response from the button that triggers the feeder they start doing ritual dances for luck.

Superstition is a response to a phenomena you don't understand. Even people who are scientific about what they know are superstitious about what they don't know.

In my opinion it's just as superstitious to say that there is ghosts (since there is so many reports it's not anecdote), as it is to say there is not.

Suspecting the existence of nonhuman forces at play in the world is superstitious but is it really wrong? Isn't this the root of curiosity - something going on that is hidden that you are determined to investigate or try to make use of. All things that are now known were once unknown, and a heretik investigated the thing and turned it into science.

If superstition is heresy under scientism then burn me at the stake.